We made it through checkout and got everything separated and bagged. The cold stuff for inside the truck and the other stuff in the back. Before we le...t the checkout, grandpa told the cashier that he needed her to spread the word he was looking to put on four ranch hands in the next week. He also told her to give anyone interested our phone number. All three of us wheeled a cart out to the truck and unloaded them and then snake volunteered to push the carts back into the store.One more time. I am surprised they let you go."She turned to Aerick. "And you... you and I have unfinished business." From the depths of her black robes she withdrew an arrow. "I believe this is yours..."The glint of silver flashed as she drove the arrow into Aerick's chest. Aerick stared in shock as the ambient magic of the took hold and he... ... slowly... ... faded... ... into... ... dea... Toril stared in shock at the death of Aerick. He seemed smaller as the life left him, and his killer simply clasped. Apparently, the tea party that Ed had interrupted had not been a tea party at all, but a delegation of women presenting a demand upon the wives. Ed wouldn’t tell him the nature of the demand, but after reading the letter from Mrs. South, he had an idea.His thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. He glanced at the clock and realized that he had been lying there for an hour. He got up and opened the door. It was a very happy Herb. “Would you like to talk to us in the dining room over. When we got back to his house, he took me upstairs for the first time, and I was really worried. He seemed to be a little sickened by walking up those huge marble stairs- and I wasn't sure why. He took me into a room that I'd call a library, or an office. He sat me down on a huge leather wing chair across from a flickering fire, and he took the other seat."I've never told you the story about my wife," he said, "Did I?" Some cop told me it was something about your wife killing your son, or some.