2 minutes later he returned and took his stuff and went back. I thought this is my day and tried to relax by sipping some water. When I took my right ...oot down to give a stretch, she turned back slowly with puzzled eyes, as if to ask why I removed my feet.It made me go crazy, so I made myself comfortable and waited for her next reaction. Seeing no action from me, she kept her right hand back over her head. I could see the reflection in the window that she is trying to look back from the corner. They were on the USS Boxer - now the command center for ground forces. They knew our concerns. The Boxer was sailing in a box in the Persian Gulf directing the ground troops.It was 1000 and all the phones started ringing. We had sent the activation orders to thirty eight state states by special couriers. Apparently they were now being delivered and several Governors were upset.The first one that passed the gauntlet to get to speak to me was the governor of New York. ‘‘I am not going to allow. As we shook hands we took the other's measure. I noticed her handshake was as strong and confident as a man's. She was a beautiful hard-featured Aryan. Her blond hair was cropped short to her head and she had unblinking piercing blue eyes. She was only inches shorter than me and her body was lean and tightly muscled. In particular I noticed a rider's crop that she carried on a thong from her wrist.She told me she was Lisa's trainer and that her job was to keep Lisa in superb physical condition.. Maguire is over at Chesterfield, taking an affidavit I think. Some sort of land dispute of course. I'm glad to see you. Isn't it a fine day?" Indeed, it is that," she said, taken aback by his exuberance and soapyness. "Here's my work. Fourteen copies, most of them short. I'll probably spend my shillings before I leave town." She smiled at him and noticed that he seemed to be looking at her oddly, rather sheepishly. "Which blacksmith is better, I mean as a farrier?" Blacksmith?" he said, feeling.