Besides, I'd love the company."We drove on for a few minutes more, with the only sound being the car engine and the rain as it dashed down. My eyes st...yed focused on the windshield and on the almost creepy crucifix that I had just noticed dangling from the rear-view mirror, before she turned and pulled up at a large white house; at least, it looked white. It was hard to see in that much rain.Getting out, I followed her, both of us running to the door. She opened it, revealing a large. “Andy and Randy could patrol the area. That would expand our perimeter by hundreds of yards.”“That’s fine,” Jake said. “In fact, it’s smart thinking, but I’m going to ring them so that they cannot control anyone.”“You don’t trust them?” Julie asked.“I just know their history,” he said. “My father put a lot of effort into forming their minds to suit his purposes. Until I’m sure that I know everything he did to them, I’m not willing to give them that kind of power.” Jake looked over at Kara.. Between my boot spikes and my baton, I was having a field day, though my uniform was getting sliced pretty badly by the knives. The underlying chain mail was stopping the knives, so that I was in good shape there, except for the buffeting. On the other hand, It was a good thing that I had taken to wearing a helmet as well as my cuirass because of all the blows from the clubs.Strangely, very few of the attackers were paying attention to Phobos, so he was laying one out with almost every blow. We. “Rockwell, you dare face us, three second level Martial Mortals, with a first level woman?!” Helev Hetra chided.The fastest to reach Zax were actually Rockwell and Riv, but what surprised Helev Hetra, Boolian and Colonel Rijok, was that instead of trying to take the spatial ring from Zax, the two actually turned around to face them with their back to the actual target.“Helev Hetra, do you remember why the members of Sinister Chain place much importance to always and only travel in pairs?”.