I left the next mornin', full of information and empty of jism, soz I was happy all around! I rode back to the Flyin' W to talk to Miz. Emily and Jake...Witherspoon about what I had learned of Kilgore. They were both a bit surprised by my news, but neither one had ever asked the right questions from the right people, soz I wasn't all that surprised that they didn't know.I spent the rest of the day restin' up from all of my vigorous exercise durin' the previous night. That was the first time I. He thenpicked out the least complicated undergarments he could find and gotdressed. After exchanging an awkward "good morning" to his father he darteddownstairs and grabbed a muffin off the table, mumbled a goodbye to hismother and then grabbed his backpack and headed out the door. The walk to school was very quiet. The only sound aside from birdschirping and cars passing by was Andrew quickly eating the breakfast hesnagged off of the table. Then he started to wonder if it looked odd fora girl. Even a manual search wouldn't reveal anything except seemingly unrelated bits that didn't obviously go together.I also made sure that I wasn't carrying anything metal at all, as I had the week before when I'd zipped through the detector at my office that had stymied the Mexicans. And, as then, I sailed right through. Mentally I shook my head at the folly of the whole thing. There are knives with ceramic blades, explosives powerful enough to be contained in a stick of deodorant, poisons. The actual marriage began around midnight, per tradition of the bride's family. They thought it gave good fortune if the bond between two people was strengthened during the darkest hour, when the Gods could pay their full attention to what was happening down on earth, right there in the large town of Yogsta. No matter the case, the festivities had already begun long before the sun started going down. And before long, the sun had been replaced by the heavenly moon, as if granting the wedding its.