"One woman had a tidbit I picked up on, "I was in the store and I heard one of the toughs talking with the deputy. They were joking about being in Kan...as during the war. I took it they rode with Quantrill's Raiders. Finally the deputy said they better shut up about Kansas. The raiders were still being looked for." One man had overheard something similar while playing cards right after the saloons opened up. The owner came by and told him to keep his mouth shut. This was all reasonable because I. She was right, taking the drive back right now would be a mistake. He raised an eyebrow. ‘OK, you’ve twisted my arm. I’ll follow you there.’ She smiled back and walked to her car. Miles watched her get in and drive down the road. He unlocked the truck and started it. Now he was getting in over his head. What had he been thinking all along? If he hadn’t been hung over, if Jimmy hadn’t been there, he would have just called her and begged off until he could spend some time thinking about things in. His lover is a normal man by the name of Marcello.Danielle ChenOne of two twin daughters of Stanley and Rachelle Chen. Born 2005. Her twin sister is Janelle. Stanley notices the sisters display a degree of empathy for one another.Also called: Dani (by Rachelle and Stanley)Darrell CarsonOne of Stanley's empire associates, a telepath of some degree.David ReeseA walking spatial singularity, born circa 1970. In layman's terms, he can teleport himself any where he can see. David's story is told in. As a disgraced Golden Guard, Roberta had been hung upside down, after having her head shaved. She had then been whipped by four other Guards, all aiming at her back from different angles and each giving her a hundred lashes. It was a ghastly ordeal even for Roberta, the toughest of the tough. They had cut her to the bone a hundred times long before they had finished with her and a half demented Roberta had screamed for mercy long before the end. But she had been so weak by that time that no one.