" But won't they be able to put two and two together when you change your name?"Allison shrugged. "Probably, but I'll deal with that at the time." Wha... about everyone else? Do they know about you and Abigail?" I think so. Analise said Marcus has known for a while. She told Deb a few weeks ago. Tanner figured it out from all his conversations with me and Jack." And Wendy?"Allison took a deep breath. "I told her right before you got here. I decided I didn't want to hide it from her. Next to you,. " Only one fight? Won't the crowds be a bit disappointed?"Francine was surprised that all these onlookers should have come here just to see one contest. And she was sure one of the combatants would be unable to continue for three whole rounds. Very likely one or even both would be out of it before round number one had ended."Maybe they will be. You have a point there, Francine. What a clever girl you are! Maybe we can find female Slaves to be opponents for you and Olga. You'd like that a lot,. Eric inhaled deeply and grimaced. He could smell cigarettes on her. No matter how many times he told her she should quit, she never did. Then again, her impetuousness was part of what he loved about her in the first place. Yet beneath the smoke smell, there was something else: orange peels, like when they used to share oranges they bought from the local grocery in the winter, cinnamon, like the cookies she used to bring as study snacks for finals week before winter break, and one final scent of. There are so few of us...Our family was one fewer today, another one weaker, one man less, one life less.Oh my God in Heaven - I HATED how sad I felt.Dying was much easier than losing Mr. Bell.Mr. Bell was the only man in my life I ever thought of as a father, and now the lessons he taught me had to last for the rest of my life.We never got to talk again after he explained how he divided up his estate, to 'protect' Coulter by only permitting him access to fifty percent the income off his third.