.Mandy thought you might need to hear this Christmas Eve story. It happened between her and Jeff when he was even younger than Randy. He was only sixt...en when he and....” “Paul...Will you let me tell this in my own way! Can we come in, honey?” on in...make yourself at home...Randy's fixing some eggnog in the kitchen....” I stopped talking in mid-sentence when I finally noticed how Mandy was dressed, in a Christmas elf outfit that revealed more of her body than it concealed. Randy walked. He disappeared from her line of vision, and she heard rustling along the wall as he grabbed things down. Lucy shook her head as best she could, making sounds of protest, too scared to talk. Kai just ignored them and dropped his tools onto the table, spreading them out and grabbing one. It looked like a thick deflated balloon with a pump on it, like at a doctor’s office. In the center of the balloon was a tube about a finger wide, and two feet long.“Open your mouth.” Kai said, pushing the tube. This would give every male at the village a hi-powered rifle and pistol just in case the bear did come by. I did find three very nice rings for the ladies, yes three! I new the count and with what Brenda had said I knew better.Once we returned to the ladies and made sure everything was secure we drove to the mobile home shop. Two-Feather and Renee picked out a mobile home. Cheryl and Michelle asked if they could have one too? I agreed so Two-Feather drove his and I drove the girls only we had. When Chemung returned Qi stared at his face, waiting to see if the weapons man had the backbone to look him in the face. He did."Safe-be," Qi said in greeting. Chemung always seems to be ready to strike at anyone or anything he deemed a threat."Safe-be," Chemung said with a slight rise of his eyebrows as he continued past. He always seemed surprised that Qi was not intimidated, which Qi had noted early. Just as enforcers in the Shadowlands relied on intimidation to keep their targets in check.