" I said. I hopped up and went over to the fireplace. The wood was already stacked and ready to go. I took a match and started the kindle and withing ... moment the fire was growing. I turned around and she was laying on her side on the couch. She had a fresh cigarette in her fingers."Will you give me a light?" she asked.I took one of the long matches and stuck it and walked over and placed it in front of her. She took the cigarette to her mouth and leaned in and lit it. She took a deep breath. ’ Emma replied, punching him lightly in the arm then smiled and asked ‘What are you accusing me of?’ ‘Why nothing dear’ he held up his hands in mock fear, ‘but maybe the hospital screwed up and switched babies on us. It has happened before.’ ‘That is a terrible thing to say, I know he is a bit of a black sheep.’ ‘That is one way of putting it.’ ‘Ok, he is not like us our or other kids.’ Paul looked at her over his drink and raised his eyebrows. ‘You are so polite.’ Emma took a big gulp of her. ’ ‘Knock off the ‘Mr.’ stuff, we drank our first beers together. See the apartment high rise, not straight across the street, but the cream colored one to the left?’ ‘Sure.’ ‘Get your P.I. friend to find out who lives in the twelfth floor apartment, second from the corner, down the side street. Just get the usual stuff. I’m gun shy now.’ ‘You have a right to be. I’m sorry that you are still having to go through all that fabricated bull shit.’ ‘Me too, but I enjoy this city too much to move.’. He wanted to start preparing to fight them if they did show up, and the one thing that they would need would be arrows and bolts.Since there was no intention to eat ant meat, there was no reason not to shoot them with poisoned arrows. Under those circumstances, he thought that the repeating crossbow that Julie had designed so many years ago would be the ideal weapon for those with no experience with bows to use.Jeff wanted to set up an assembly line of sorts to make arrows for the three bows.