* David Noble walked up to the woman in his kitchen as she poured him a glass of red wine, bending over he lifted the curtain of hair away from the ba...ck of her neck and kissed the nape of her neck. ‘We did stay at home on Tuesday didn’t we?’ he asked her, ‘only the Police may come around and ask you if we were or not.’ Smiling up at her husband of two years she nodded, ‘Yes we were at home, except for the half hour or so you went out to buy some more wine.’ ‘Nah, that was the day before.’. Red aka Goddess Red"Wow there it was, a chance things will work out. I was on cloud nine. Completely ignoring the fact that something might go wrong.I clicked on "reply" and was sorely tempted to pour out my love for Red. But I followed orders type "YES" and hit "send". It was done. Two more weeks before I would see my Goddess.That night I had a really hard time falling asleep. I was tossing and turning, all sort of scenarios going through my head. Will we go back to where we were before Red. Maggie persuaded herself and her husband that she should take the job, and ten days later she arrived in Lokichogio on a propeller-driven airplane from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.The airport at Lokichogio was hot and dusty. Half a dozen battered cargo planes, some of them painted in military greens and grays were sitting around the far side of the tarmac. Sacks of grain were being loaded on two of them. African workers clustered in the narrow shade offered by the wings of the airplanes.. Actually there are a LOT of old saying in the muscle-bound barbarian hero business. This is mostly because the average muscle-bound barbarian can't read. And so an oral tradition is necessary. (Although if asked, most muscle-bound barbarians would think that an oral tradition is something that pleasure slaves are trained to do.)Anyway, the saying pertinent to this part of our story is this: "Never, ever give a witch, wizard, or sorcerer an even break. 3 feet of steel through the gizzard will.