This is my friend Eleanor. She likes to cook.’ The old woman took another step closer but didn’t say anything more. A small group of people moved ...p behind her. Billie assumed they were waiting for her permission before they accepted the food. ‘We’re just offering to share a few meals. Nothing more, I promise,’ Billie said, holding a stack of the containers toward her. ‘Take them.’ The woman stared before nodding. The others in the group each took a container before turning away. ‘Wait,’. " She went into the office and came back with twofountain pens she likes to keep around for signing legal documents,"You take this into the office," handing me a pen and parchment, "andI'll take this one into the den." At that, she skipped off to the den."Well, I guess I'll go to the office."Plopping down in the "comfy" office chair, I stared at the parchmenttrying to decide if I really wanted to deface it like this. After 15minutes of staring and her not coming to check on me, I figured I. " Oh," I giggled. "My dear mother prayed that her daughter would get all gooshy over some guy. You may have warped me." I didn't pray about you and SOME guy, Johanna Elise. I prayed about you and THE guy. And proudly I will accept your warpage."So I had the phone call. Stoney always calls me when he's in the car, lined up to get out of the parking garage on the way home. I have nothing left to do but wait.Check email. There's one from Cindy and Kara that they're enroute to Alabama, them and. It seemed to be quite an amazing shot to everyone, so I kept quiet that I’d been trying for his arm. I yelled out to everyone to stand down, that the Indians were not a threat. They were, in fact, working for me. The next person to try to harm them would answer to me. While all this was going on, Judge Mitchell came out of the courthouse to see what all the commotion was. Seeing me, he came up and asked what was going on. ‘Judge! I was just coming to see you. A messenger came to our ranch.