Mary suddenly threw her arms around Bill and burying her face in his chest, started sobbing. They were the deep, soul wrenching sobs of a young girl t...at had lost all hope that her world would ever be the same again. She was trying to speak through the sobs but all Bill could make out was something about him being gone.Bill looked over Mary's shoulder at her mother as he gently wrapped the young girl in his arms. "What?" he mouthed to her mother. To the young girl he just murmured, "That's. I looked at the weaponry spread out on the table. Sally had selected well, if she was going to stop an elephant; or an enraged man. I also didn't think she intended to miss this time. I didn't intend to let it get that far.I knew what it was to kill a man, what it did to you inside. In the course of my agency work, I had had to learn to kill. I had done it very well. Too well, for my taste, even if the targets had deserved it. Something inside of you dies each time you take a life, though, and. I kept saying didi move, ur too heavy, you’ll break my legs and she kept bouncing more in playful mood saying no, I’m not leaving my comfy seat, and all the cousins in a playful mood kept laughing and encouraging her not to get up and squash me under her weight.I somehow put my hands around her hips and tickled her and pushed her off me, and kept standing in the corner and told her you can have the place now, but in a playful way… I was feeling odd about her, and confused about what was she up. ’ ‘You’ve got to try harder.’ He stared at the giant rock in the palms of his hands. He swallowed a few times and cleared his throat. ‘I…I read in Cap’n Steven’s log about the Sacred Stone of Sea Sirens.’ A look of profound sadness fell over Charly’s face as she looked away. He wasn’t going to listen to her. ‘Gems—’ ‘—He gave a good description, too.’ Then he lifted his gaze and looked at her quiet but taut profile. ‘So whatcha think, huh Charly? Does this look like the Sacred Stone of Sea.