.. I never wanted to join up in the first place, but my brother said we had to after Pa died. Please, don’t make me go with them!”The two hillfolk...looked at the boy with disdain.Corec sighed. One of the solutions he’d discussed with Ellerie, Sarette, and Boktar during the night had been to hold the former red-eyes as prisoners until they could find some sort of authority to turn them over to, but they’d decided it was too dangerous to keep that many men around.Still, one person was easier to. He lifted my right arm in the air and slipped the black silk ribbon through the iron ring. What a contrast of materials; the masculine iron ring with the black feminine silk ribbon. James then secured my right arm; to my surprise I was facing the bare brick wall. Either by luck, but I suspect through careful planning I realised that I was barely able to keep my body away from the wall without standing on tiptoes. I could already feel the abrasive texture of the bare brick wall against by. We won’t use any of the flash bangs during the attack, but some can be used with the other booby-traps,” I told those on both Teams, who were all at the meeting.“What time will we be leaving?” Sergeant Moran asked.“We’ll be departing here at 2300 hrs. That should put us near their location by 0030. With travel time on foot in both directions plus observation and setup time at the site, we should be back at the vehicles by 0330 for the return trip here. We’ll take extra food for the Partners in. The community where I lived was fifteen miles from a small town. When I got horny I’d drive into town and troll the bars until I found what I wanted and then rent a room at a cheap motel where they didn’t ask any questions. It was surprisingly easy to pick up young men who had had a lot to drink and couldn’t afford a prostitute, or had been slow dancing with bar girls all night and had ended the evening with raging hard-ons. Fall was arriving and the days were getting shorter and the air.