.. I can’t explain it.”Linda stepped closer to him. “I think I know how you feel,” she said. “Somehow, they gave us our daughter back.”“... know she’s too young to get married,” said Bob. “But, if things keep up the way they are now, in a couple of years... ?”“You’d marry her?” asked Linda, her voice low, and full of emotion.“Yes,” he said immediately. “With your permission, and if she’ll have me.”“Oh, I don’t think you need to worry about her having you,” sighed Linda. “Though I’ll have to think. Revanche smiled saying good morning, Raimi said good morning, she stopped when Trink asked her if she knew what to buy at the store, Raimi chuckled "no damned idea at all but I'm sure I'll figure it out if its cookable or edible." Trink and Revanche watched her pad down the drive, then take flight, Revanche handed Trink a folder "hold onto these for me Trink, I think I'll go lend her a hand." Trink watched Revanche leave with a thoughtful look on his face.Just outside of town Raimi landed and. Well, except for the young men of Sticksville. They thought he was a flash git and despised him for continually running off with their girlfriends.And except for some of the young women as well. But the stories they told couldn't possibly be true and must be malicious lies.This evening Christian Crusader was on the trail of his arch-nemesis: the Harridan. The wicked witch had set up her pernicious operations again in a disused factory out by the waterfront. Christian Crusader felt it was his. It would be a magnanimous gesture of good will, she hoped.Jolene was not very popular, although she was as fair-minded as any other goddess who held her own court. But, people remembered that it was she who had ordered the only execution since the goddesses' arrival.She wasn't too worried, though. It wasn't like she didn't have the time to prove her benevolence to the people in her district. She had all the time in the world. If nothing else, she would simply outlive those who remembered.There.