This was not one of those times. That's when she asked me pull down my bottoms so she could see for herself. I was extremely apprehensive, to say the... least, but I kept telling myself that this was just like gym class, and it was okay for girls to see girls. I stood up, and pulled down my bottoms. She didn't actually laugh so much as she gasped. I also gasped when she reached out and grabbed some of the hairs and pulled them out to see how long they were. I think her exact words were "Oh my. "I think we should go to Burcel first. We can stay at the Lazy Horse Inn, then decide where to go from there." Sounds good to me. Let's start getting ready to go."We were ready very quickly. The horse, Leon, started taking us in the direction of the village of Burcel. Gianna rode behind me, arms wrapped around my stomach. She had her head against the back of my shoulders.We rode south from the farm, quickly hooking up with a dirt road that Gianna said led to Burcel. After a while, the plains. "Feeling like her dirty little secret was partially revealed, Kerri bluntly announced, "I'm not gay; I'm happily married."Valerie's eyebrows shot up. "I wasn't hitting on you, just complimenting you."Kerri wanted to slap herself. She was so rude. She apologized, "I'm sorry. It's just... you know, early in the morning and I'm a little cranky." Oh, I understand. I get like that, too. It's like turning into the Green Hulk," Valerie smiled.The pair of ladies laughed, eliminating the awkward. It seemed that the very best among them were chosen to die: husbands and fathers, artists, teachers, craftsmen, students, all were taken by the scythe of war. They ended their days as cold, mutilated corpses in the bloodied mud of Satan's field. He saw the carnage on both sides of the battle lines and raised his face to curse the very heavens where a heedless God sat with blind eyes. He felt himself impelled to curse creation itself, but he knew this was wrong. The fault lay with man, not with.