It was the only part of him that moved, but Smythe hesitated.Hating himself for it, he stood in the maelstrom of Aran’s vala, convinced that he was ...atching his friend die.***HERALDS OF DAWN ARMY – On Approach to the Emerin Forest***“This is a mistake,” one of the recently recruited Heralds hissed to the man on his left as they rode toward the shadowy shapes of the outlying trees of the Emerin Forest. It was almost impossible to make out due to the bare sliver of moon in the sky, but he was. I can't honestly say that I ever had much of an interest in boys, but what Rolf and his gang did to me along with having to prostitute myself turned me off to men completely." Is there someone?" asked Lisa."No. I lived with a woman, Anita, for about a year, but she was too possessive -- I felt smothered so I moved out. That was over a year ago. But what about your husband?" Divorced. When he found I was pregnant with Rolf's child he just couldn't handle it. He wanted me to have an abortion, but. Whole town's closed it looks like. Guess it's too late for spring fever, eh?" Have you seen any other young women, except the French girl I mean, since you got home?" His mother waited, hand on hip, smiling pleasantly as she stood by her stove. She shook down the grate, knowing it did not need it."A few," he said. "One or two. I went to that barn dance, remember, and then there was the box picnic we all went to and that church supper." And?" asked his mother as Annie squirmed with her knees in. If she did possess a physique worthy of my attention I would have to find some other way to punish her.She opened the door to my room wondering what the hell she was doing. She couldn't be gone too long from the front desk and if she were caught it would mean her job. But she was worried that if she didn't make her move now she may never get another chance, and she couldn't risk that.So, with my machinations completed, I got out of her head and waited to see what she would do.She locked the.