An ideal solution would be to have a house just far enough from town to insure privacy, but still close enough to let us get to jobs or school easily,...but that was still out of reach financially.Peter and I had the only jobs, he with a landscaper, me at the computer store, both part time. Becky lived with her parents and only got an allowance and a little extra for special occasions. Sandi was the youngest of us and got a little spending money on occasion. All together we might come up with. He chuckled, ‘city’. Terms meant so much to people sometimes; Ling had explained why he had upgraded the town to city, and asked for a vellum scroll from the new ruler ‘being pleased to re-confirm the ancient and honourable state of city on Brancaster ... de dah de dah de dah’. It was true, four hundred or more years ago Brancaster had been the Imperial capital for the region; yes, they would like to think they were being returned to such importance.Ling was working on an idea for four regional. The Blue hats have a detachment at the entrance of Timber ridge. We can get past them but not with our ATVs, they would hear them. Oh and Juju says she is sorry for shooting you. It was her last bullet.I told them to spread out and to set up a tent for the young ones. This is going to take some scouting and planning. We fed all the kids and our new additions, who had nothing but water from a spring Which I told them to make use of to wash themselves. I did not want any sickness from filthy. It probed briefly its peripheral zone and then touched it.Surrounded by a vast gray sea, beneath gray sky and situated at the epicenter of black and flourishing patch of land, a tremor passed through Zax’s soul.“Graaaahhhhh!” A shrilling, miserable yell suddenly resounded out from his pressed to the ground face.“Aaaaaaaahhhhh!” It grew louder, painful, everlasting.Zax’s body, weakened to the point of previously not even having the strength to speak, shook and began to spasm. His legged.