”“Oh Shoo,” Maggie smiled. “John you worry too much. We will be fine have fun catching up.”I stumble a bit as I’m ushered out the back doo... of the shop and through a doorway with stairs leading up to the second story. Closing the door, John turns me slightly and firmly presses me against the wall. “You won’t be needing these,” he growls, grabbing the waist band of both my yoga pants and panties and pulling them straight down to my ankles. “Step out of them and hang them on the. Tilden, you will take the rear guard. Leeza, you are in front with me, and Sergeant, you will rotate our guests and keep them separated from roving eyes in the fields. Let us ride.”The captain kept them far from any buildings and took long detours around villages. Porter would look back occasionally, but he saw no evidence of pursuit. He sent out tendrils of Blue and found no contact with other people either. Nonetheless, he was a novice and was not sure he would recognize pursuit until it was. " You submit to his authority with what he wants to hear. Mr Hodgkinson loves to hear the word Sir, especially from his female pupils."Good! Now sit down Brittany, I have some work for you to do."You sit down nervously, keeping your eyes on Mr Hodgkinson all the time, watching what he does, awaiting further instructions. After what seems like an eternity, he hands you a slip of paper with a sentence written on it in typed black ink."You will write this line Brittany, 200 times, 'I will learn to. But to see all those happy faces go from overjoyed to see me to either horrified or raging mad was a let down. My mother and grandmother folded me into a fierce though gentle hug after I squealed about my ribs, demanding to know who had hurt me whilst the menfolk stared at my face with looks that told me their shot guns and rifles would be properly oiled tonight. I demurred from telling the story in the crowded Denver Airport so they bustled me to baggage claim and then to the fleet of trucks.