No loss to him, orher for that matter. She considered the puzzle of her new Master,Armand... a strange one, she decided, even for an Earthman; she had...heardhim speaking in that Earthian tongue and the transparent ruse of naminghis home city "Tellus", well...He laughed a lot, too much, and the way he treated Amanda, the White-Silkbrunette, was odd too. Abuse she could understand, she had been beatenenough herself in the past and she'd surely be beaten again in thefuture, but ridicule? He was out. There were four bandits, and they already had the coach stopped and the passengers standing around with their hands in the air. There was no sign of the crew, so we figured that they must be dead. There was one woman and two men as passengers. While we were still too far away to be of any help, one of the bandits grabbed the arm of the woman. A male passenger tried to object, and he was immediately shot in the gut by another of the bandits.The passenger fell to the ground, and Josh and I. "You sound like you really like your stepdaughter," Beck said."I do. She's like my little sister and my daughter and, gosh, that mind..." I answered."That's good. You hear so many stories about blended families and the friction..." Oh, I know," I said, sipping my Coke. "I worried about that when we first started talking, before I actually met. But Alan called her once or twice a week, and when he and I got together, I started talking with her, and then she started calling me to talk." You two. " Two Hundred dollars a month is positive? You'd have been here till you were eighty!" Even so, it was better than nothing, which had looked liked my main prospect for the first couple of months trying to earn some money. I was able to fall into a routine, a screwed up routine I will admit, but a routine nonetheless."I began Monday mornings with Donny, who liked to spread raspberry jelly on my pussy instead of his toast and lick it off. That was a guaranteed five bucks in my pocket each week..