He had been in a foul mood at that time because he was beginning to doubt the "rightness" of his assassin's life and had issues with trusting any of t...e so-called friends around him. That day stood out in his memory because it was all so unnecessary in his mind and a reflection of the miscommunication on both sides.So much water had gone "under the bridge" since that day that he had to shut his mind to the competing memories that made him doubt his own up close and personal perspective of the. Not for me to try and get your votes for election as the leader of the Council. No today we are here to discuss our growing problem with the monsters that we allow to roam our streets. Freely and unsupervised, these monsters are suppose to protect us from the monsters that are outside our walls. What I want to know is who is going to protect us from the monsters in our walls? Who saves the humans from the monsters when they are responsible for our safety? When they are the police who do we call. Rhiana did not have an instant dislike of her Mistress, little did Rhiana know the harsh love/hate relationship she would come to have with the woman. But then, Rhiana would have remembered, had her mind not been in constant turmoil, those were the last of the days when she thought things would work out all right. That day marked the start of her slide into somewhere deeper, darker and colder than she had ever been before, both physically and mentally. In the small white room words were said. "Back on the beach I found Manny sitting with a group of people who were grilling some food. I was impressed that someone had thought to bring a grill and realized it was probably way past lunch time as my stomach growled something fierce. I grabbed a beer and a burger and sat, gulping the burger down in about four bites."Hey, man." I elbowed Manny. "Who's that girl? Do you know?" I pointed at Surfer Babe.Manny stared at her for a minute, then shook his head. "I don't know. I mean, I've seen.