They continued following the direction of the cell phone signal until they reached a remote corner of the ranch. Caleb held everyone back from the aba...doned line shack the cell signal was coming from. He didn't believe for a second that Branch had simply left the phone to be found.The bomb squad found two booby-traps, each of which had enough explosives to kill anyone within fifty yards. Caleb was thankful that he had been cautious. His caution had saved men's lives. Branch was long gone before. “We can’t let poor Patty feel like that, can we?” “I guess not’, I replied tentatively. “I suppose I could try to help out. But… uh… like right here, right now?” “Well, I thought we might have you two over to my house. Less chance of someone walking in’, answered Linda. “Okay”, I agreed. We walked over to Linda’s house. She led us to her living room and sat Patty and I on the couch. Patty and I sat a little apart from each other, not yet touching. Linda took a chair facing us. Linda was. I almost think he was a drug dealer. I didn't at that time know what it was my mother saw in him. A few weeks before midterms I was studying for the exam in my dorm when mom called. Not to seem rude, I answered and went on reading while having a half-way conversation. “You are going to show up for the reunion, right Brandon?” she asked, “I don’t want to answer any awkward questions about why you aren't there.” I responded with, “Yeah that sounds great, mom.” As I flipped the pages in my. If she finds one, she will fortify it and then bring up her gear tomorrow. Requirements were quite specific – it had to be well hidden and easy to defend, but also have an alternative escape route should things go badly. It needed to be relatively close to a settlement or trade route so she doesn’t have to haul her “goods” too far to sell them. She has been set up in her current camp for too long – there's nothing worth picking left in the immediate area, and the ruined town south is infested.