"Try over yonder. We're getting ready to make camp." She pointed toward a ridge. It was perhaps an hour before sunset.June was easy to find. She was s...tting on a stump watching three young soldiers put up a small tent. She was wearing black boots and long, white breeches that buttoned down the sides and disappeared into them. She had on a patterned wool shirt like mine and a grenadier jacket with the sleeves turned back. Her soft hair was plaited and rolled up onto the back of her head. She. "Julie tapped the cane lightly across their buttocks "Bottoms up", she told them. Debbie raised her bottom a little higher. She heard the whistle of the cane and felt the first stroke burn across her bottom. Debbie's buttocks quivered a bit, but she stayed in position and did not clench.A few seconds later Julie administered another stroke across Cimmeron's bottom. She alternated strokes between then, drawing the cane behind her and whipping it forward fast and hard every few seconds. Each. " What exactly did he say?" He said, 'I put it to you that your Commanding Officer had tasked you with preventing Major Johnson from doing something dangerous.'"Yes," I answered."To which he said, 'and you failed to do so.'"I said yes again and he very pointedly said, 'I have no further questions.' He had a go at the CO on the same subject and Colonel Peter came out strongly in support of me. But he had said the same thing as I thought and it reinforced it." Darling, I think that's awful." It. " Quit messing around Kai, Im not taking you with me" he called out. No reply. Just an unnerving silence.Take me with you"I said quit it, Kai!" he roared out.At that moment Helen and Kailynn walked in the front door."Where were you a minute ago?" he asked them."Outside, duh!" Kailynn said, giggling."Did you tell me to..." he never finished his sentence.Take me with youArrian suddenly looked extremely pale. He heard the words, but neither his mother or sister moved their lips. But, he heard it,.