"I think you exaggerate," said Sarah knowing in heart that if nothing else she would have lost her father as he would never understood his daughter be...ng 'one of them.'"So I made a decision," Julie went on, "and I knew if I had stayed and tried to explain you would have looked at me with those soft brown dyke eyes and I would have weakened. So I took the hard road."Sarah didn't say anything but knew that Julie was right and before she could say anything Julie scooped her up in her arms and. "I can just sit under anumbrella while you bake."Their conversation was interrupted by a waiter carrying over a traywith two drinks identical to the ones already on the table and placedthem down."We didn't order refills," Carl said."From the two gentleman by the bar," the waiter said, and walked away.Felicia and Carl turned to the bar to see two men, roughly around theirage, wearing Hawaiian shirts, waving at them."Oh great..." Carl turned beet red, almost matching the color of hisdress."You. It was like watching a magic show and knowing the trick. I was also an amazing shot. I would just point and fire and people died. It was a little unnerving to see fake blood gush out of gunshot wounds I was supposed to have caused.If anyone thought I was a good shot, Craig could shoot the eye out of a fly at 500 yards. If it hadn't been so cold out I think we would have really had a good time. I learned some things I never really wanted to know. Did you know sweat would actually freeze to your. But he knew why she hadn't, he wouldn't have let her go.Cynara let the warm water of the shower run over her drained body. She remembered a time when she had wondered if she could give up all these modern conveniences to live in the eighteen hundreds, but now it seemed like a joke. She would give up anything just to have Charlie hold her again.It had been a week since Cynara's reentry into modern times. She shuddered to think back to that first night, the overwhelming despair she had felt then..