’ replied the Chief. ‘Brevetting’ was promoting someone to higher rank than their pay grade, ahead of the zone, so to speak. For example, the le...endary General Custer was brevetted a general during the Civil War… then had to go back being a Captain after the Civil War. Also, sometimes an Army Major taking a battalion command would be brevetted to Lieutenant Colonel, to have rank and authority equal to other battalion commanders in the same brigade. But he’d be paid like a Major until he was. It was concerning and yet your friends and family never seemed worried as such a relatively small, mountainous village seemed a poor target when much larger ones were relatively close by.Of course, you had felt that if the Succubi had come to your town, you would probably have been one of the first to fall (or be fallen upon as it were). The son of a tailor, you were the shortest and most slender of your family and friends that had just reached adulthood. Your face was also irritatingly. " Carmelita had outdone herself with a bar-b-qued steer that tasted so good that you never wanted to stop eating. There were beans and potato salad and green salad and... I don't know where she found it all! Everybody ate until they were packed full.Sarah and I led off with the first dance. The guests did not need any encouragement when it was time to join us. The round and square dancing continued far into the night. I don't know when the dancing finally ended because Sarah and I left while we. Lying there one day, I noticed an older man, who put his towel close by, and lay down next to me. He smiled at me, and I smiled back, and then he made a bit of conversation about how good the weather was, and pretty soon we were chatting away happily.He steered the conversation around to girls, and asked me if I had a girlfriend and I said “No, not at the moment”“You’re a good looking guy”, he said, “you should be having regular sex at your age” He saw my look of embarrassment and said “Oh.