“If you requested that I come here to Kansas City to poke around into my past, you can just send the main man back in Washington a message that he c...n wipe his ass on this paper he gave me and I’ll head on home. What’s done is done. I have been exonerated from all those false charges, as have my daughter and son-in-law!” Eli said as he stood looking down on the marshal and his deputy.“Marshal Crow, I was previously informed by a friend in the Marshal’s Service that you may have a hot temper.. I found out Cacatata was basically a vegan. Vitamin supplements would be mailed to the house that would round out Cacatata’s diet.Cacatata was super efficient at housework and gardening and all that, and I didn’t want to sit around, so I helped a lot too. Most days we would be done with everything only a couple of hours after Rick left for work unless we had a gardening project we wanted to do. I soon taught Cacatata how to drink wine (which got her tipsy) and play backgammon (which she was. For the most part the guys were just really nice and appreciative and supportive and funny and cool. Course it was different for me to be in what is called the ‘minority,’ like there were all these black men and just us 5 white girls and at first it was a weird feeling and I kept remembering how my Dad would say to be careful around them, meaning black people but especially black men I think, cause they were ‘different.’ But after a few minutes of serving I hardly noticed that. They didn’t. Stephanie was surprised to see him. She had not expected that he would be home so quickly, and was not really dressed appropriately for going out. She declined his invitation to go driving, but offered instead that they could sit around the house and just talk. Talking was not the highest thing on Kyle's priority list, but he acquiesced and they spent the next several hours talking about his boot camp experience. He told her that he was home on a ten day leave, but needed to allow two days.