"Suddenly one small, inflated kick bag flew off its stand and bounced off the wall thirty feet away. Mark turned and walked back to the locker room. G...eg followed him."What is it Mark? You looked ready to explode out there. Is there anything I can do to help?" Nah, not really. I had Mike's estate turned over to me on my birthday and caught my mother blowing my lawyer."Greg flinched at the revelation. He could hear the raw emotion in Mark's voice. "Well hell, no guy likes to watch his mother. I felt he prevented me frombeing the person I needed to be, but the reality was , and is that I was /am the only person who should bear that reality, that guilt.I attended through my work, a shrink of sorts under the guise of angermanagement - I am always unhappy and grumpy / unreasonable, and quicklyopened up to her (the psychiatrist) about being transgendered. Sheencouraged me to seek out support groups which I did, as well as openingup to my wife, who to her credit, did and has not disowned. “You got a minute?”“Sure,” he replies. “What’s up?”“I’ve got to tell you about last night, man,” Michael says, ushering Daniel into his office.They take a seat on the couch and Michael jumps right into his story. “So after we all left Champs, I went down to the Drowning Otter and decided to have a few more drinks and maybe score.”“Maybe?” Daniel asks sarcastically. “There is now maybe with you.”Michael spreads his hands out. “What can I say? I’m a ladies man.”“I wouldn’t go that far,” Daniel. He knew the uniform. He knew that round red circle, on an olive green background. Peacekeepers. They had been downwind until the last second and in defilade from the trail so he couldn’t have seen them, until Bear barely got a whiff at the last minute. Classic ambush. Clipper was unused to professionals this far out in the mountains.Bear went insane, but at least he didn’t charge the men. Girl spoke sharply to him, telling him to shut up and sit. He didn’t sit but he calmed down a little, still.