"Was anyone else injured in the attack?" I asked pointedly, looking over at Nimue."No Charles," she replied forcing a smile onto her lips. "From what ...e can determine, the assassins were either teleported into the keep by the bastards on the other Earth or they found a way in that allowed them to pass any posted sentry." That's good to hear," I sighed in reply, "considering the damage they did to us. Thankfully you came along in the nick of time and saved me. I appreciate that my little elf,. "Heather and I would like to make acouple of statements," she announced. "Heather, you go first."Heather 'T' began. "Since I think these changes are permanent, aspainful as it is to me, I need to make a break with the past and to makeit clear that I am no longer a brother, son, daughter or wife to any ofyou. "Eileen will no longer be considered my sister but as my dearestfriend and confident and I hope that all of you will still be my friends.That includes you, Carl, especially since we share. I could feel it was having an enormous effect on him too, but he would never try to get on top of me, or me on top of him.To begin with, he would just stoke my hair for me and then my back and his left hand would come to rest on my bum and he would pull me into him. At first he would have his leg on top of mine so that I couldn’t even open mine and put myself in a position of ‘danger’ from him.I suppose he just couldn’t trust himself as much as I did. Yes, I would try and I would hold his. I laughed at first, then became angry because now there would be open season on any group of farm workers who ventured too far from their own ranks. In a month or so, the excitement over the attack ahd died down. Elena and her family had been reunited in Tulare, the county seat. She was working as a domestic house keeper as were her mother and both sisters. I had heard that was the case form the boss man, but didn't know for a fact until I went to Tulare to pay property taxes. Not far from.