I mean, I knew girls in high school that acted more adult.”“Well, your father obviously sees something in her,” Magdalene pointed out.“Yeah, a...d we both know what that is,” Riley laughed.Magdalene couldn’t help but chuckle a little herself.“Also, it really pisses me off, what she did to you,” Riley abruptly added.“What she did to me?” Magdalene asked, a bit confused as she could only recall two or three times that she even met Amanda, and all had been exceedingly brief encounters.“She destroyed. Gray-jacket kicked off his left shoe and reached into his backpack. He yanked out a folding-stock AK-47 and was inserting a magazine when I fired my first shot. The range was less than 20 feet and my aiming point was his right eye. A jet of pink mist exploded out of his face and I swung my sights to where Brown-jacket was sitting. There was a rifle in his hands and his head was turned toward me, his mouth wide with shock. A hole appeared in his upper lip and a spray of red painted the potted. "We'll start with dictation, and then we'll do the sight singing."Richard obliged, and pulled out some blank staff paper and his pencil.Dr. Dobra sat at the piano. "Some intervals, then. I'll play each twice, as we've done in class."Richard listened closely to each note pairing, and then notated the intervals. He could feel Dobra's eyes on him as he wrote, peering through the triangle of the open piano lid.The intervals were not hard for Richard, and he was reasonably sure he had gotten them. .." at least that way I knew I had a slight chance."You have a deal..." I heard him crashing through the underbrush.As he came into view I saw the bright orange splatters across his chest and shoulder.I pointed at his 'wounds', "Aw fuck... that's more than disabling, I'd call that a clean kill!" Deals a deal," he said smiling while putting his gun and backpack down.I did the same and we circled each other and then lunged at almost the same time. I was the late one, and within a few minutes was.