" How soon can you send me some samples?" Hey, little girl, want to come play in MY toyroom???" there was a pause."You Betcha, kiddo. Name the date an... time." Damn, kid. OK. Bring the samples when you can spend a couple of days. It'll take a week or two to make the insides once I get a machine shop intown, and the monomel stock." Got it, Kelly. It's a date. Three weeks, OK?" Deal. Bye!" Bye!"Allie just looked on with admiration."You're really doing it, aren't you?" Yup. Let's go get re-tooled.. Pretty, pretty please, if you ever, ever feelLike you're nothing, you are perfect to me.Jasen's stared straight into the eyes of the girl in the pink dress, wishing she could see him, yet happy she couldn't. All around him, people stood, applauding the group of women. More than anyone, he guessed, they were applauding Kairi. The others on stage edged her forward, but she remained in line with them, shaking her head at their efforts. When the applauding began to die, she was the first to scurry. Ben's scowl returned with a vengeance. "Yeah," his voice was disgusted, resigned. "I guess you are."Ben was fuming.Damn Croft. Damn her and her deep brown eyes and her sexy British laugh. Damn her sexy figure, especially in the skimpy clothes she was wearing. Damn her and her 'I'm tougher than the rest of the world and I'm going to prove it' attitude. Most of all, damn him for getting sucked in by her.Shortly after their conversation, Lara had ducked out to go to the can, leaving Ben fuming at. “Is it? Perhaps I ought to come warm you up.”Though she looked confused at this, Dave quickly shucked off his shirt and tossed it on the shore before eying the water of the lake.“CANNONBALL!!!”*****“Damn you to the fires of Hell, Mordred…”Arthur grimaced as he surveyed the damage of the village. The attack had come swiftly and without warning; the poor people here never stood a chance. By the time Arthur and his men had arrived, it was late afternoon the previous day, and it had taken them all.