We took breaks for the children to rest and gave our water to them. The sun was up and the jungle was awake and loud with the noise of birds. When it ...ent quiet I stopped and knelt and set the two children on the ground.I touched my lips and gestured and everyone laid down. I lifted my rifle and searched around us and finally saw the enemy patrol. They actually passed ten meters in front of us and I counted fifty men. We waited several minutes after they had gone before I stood. It took another. “Yer ... well ... I ... I ... I like the feeling of my Tiddles being shaved but...”Before she could continue Keith had interrupted her with a question, “Tiddles? What do you mean by Tiddles? Is that what you call your girly bits down there?”Cheryl blushed again and said, “Yes, that’s right. We had a cat called Tiddles when I was just 5 years old and I loved that cat soooo much but he got run over by the school bus. When I got older and discovered that my ... my ‘thingie’ down there was called a. MUSH!" At the last word, a starter's pistol went off, and instantly Tiffany's team was accellerating down the floodlit chute, ten tails strung out behind ten madly-running dogs, Tiffany kicking off the back, to try to help them pick up speed. In a matter of seconds, they were beyond the floodlights, off into the night."Too bad you didn't draw higher," Mark commented."Not all bad," Josh said. "These guys like to pass people. Keeps their interest up."That was said as much for some of the other. Then what became of the little boy; that stalwart little soldier, the proud and brave little knight who’d battled all the forces of evil for his ebon haired green eyed fairy queen? He was told the angels had come for his maiden, that God had summoned her home. He cried, he ranted, he raged against that God who had stolen his darling away. But she was gone; gone from his life forever.But in time he forgot too. He forgot the long spring, summer, and fall when he was the hero, the knight, stalwart.