When he had gone, I asked Abra. "How many men have you killed?" Too many, " she said. She didn't give me the macho bullshit answer just a simple sad '...oo many." I could only nod at her answer."How about you?" she asked.I thought about the Harvard Chink when I said, "Obviously not enough, there are plenty more that need it." There will always be men who need killing," she said. "Some people think we should not be judge and executioner, but sometimes that is what we have to be. Simply because. .. himself inconfusion, wondering what was going on. He was just a bakerand had been working on his loaves when those people fromthe Order came and forced him to go with them. Or at leaststrongly suggested that he do so, which was nearly the samething. Then Karim slowly looked down at himself, alreadysensing the differences in his body but still beingunprepared for the sight that awaited him. In an instant,he recognized the dress as the very same one that theprincess had been wearing, though. I know.” The conversation ended there. I put in a CD, and we sat in silence, listening to The Strokes all the way to Ryan’s house.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “There aren’t any lights on.”“Yeah, we can probably sneak in if your parent’s room isn’t open.”We slid into the garage after a panicked episode in the car where we couldn’t find Ryan’s pants, but we were both fully clothed, now. “Hey.” I whispered through the dry darkness.“Hey.”“Wait. With false dawn already lighting the skies, a mass of armored men and women began to form. The houses and shops no barrier to the assembled soldiers. I still waited; I needed the leaders to arrive to deliver their one last set of demands. I was still curious to where Martha went off to, she had disappeared once I exited the guild tower. The mages inside had their warning. If they chose to ignore it, then it was on them.Just as the sun breached the city walls to the east, six women in regal.