Bobby ran to hitch the wagon and mule, while Sue and Ann fetched all of the blankets in the house and I carried two mattresses out to the wagon.We wer... ready to go in less than ten minutes. Bobby drove while the two girls rode with him and I rode my horse. We raced back to the accident scene and prepared to help. We made the two mattresses into beds in the wagon and spread the blankets. As carefully as I could, I lifted the man into our wagon and placed him on one of the beds. I then picked up. Once they were all atop it, they all drew their bows and waited. Ferah walked over to admire my horses, gently petting them as another cloaked figure arrived from up the road. He announced as soon as he was within earshot, “My lady. Maura is finished. Both blockades are ready.” “Then have the gates opened so the Devil runners can come in.” I knew better than to question what was going on. Since my first encounter with Ferah, the talk of threats to the Zoo had vanished. The owner had said. Tuck was in front of the apartment building, looking forlorn, waiting for me. He looked surprised when he saw that Elizabeth was with me."What kept you, Vic? You're my driver. When I call for you to drive me someplace you're to drop what you're doing and come after me." Tuck said when he got into the backseat."Don't talk to him that way, Frank. He was busy taking care of me. He's not a one trick pony like you used to be," Elizabeth said to her husband."He didn't do a very good job of taking. A subject of discussion which briefly resulted in raised voices was whether anything currently going on was “like Vietnam.” Was the US presence in Afghanistan “like Vietnam?” Was the presence of “boots on the ground” in the Middle East “like Vietnam?” Many of these kids had uncles, aunts, in some cases even parents in the military (Hawaii has a large military population), so they thought about this sort of thing more than most kids.Not one child expressed any feeling that their adult relatives.