"This brought some smiles and I didn't have to read their minds to know what they were thinking. The next morning I sent a squad of three down to esco...t the general here and around our pitfalls.An old pickup coughed its way up the small rise and came to a stop at our gate. He was questioned, his vehicle searched and then allowed to pass. The three boys were still in the pickup. A florid man with a Hawaiian shirt that would stop a train stepped out of the truck. I strode forward and introduced. ."Sarah lay on top of him crying into his chest. She had her hands griped tightly as she babbled her apologies. Tim couldn't help but laugh from the situation. He hadn't really had a reason to laugh in a long time, and here, lying on the floor, he found himself practically giggling. He had turned into a vampire and almost killed his family twice, and for some reason the one member he had almost killed again was lying on top of him spouting her worry over his safety."I am sorry, Sarah," chocked. They each grabbed an arm or leg and picked him up, ignoring his feeble struggles to carry him to the giant centrered low-level, marble topped table. The fifth member of the group had produced from a pocket of his coveralls, four short pieces of white rope. Bill was bound fast at wrist and ankle to the coffee table with a material gag tied around the back of his neck. Bizarrely, the four then picked up the table with its burden and stood it on end against the wall. In effect, Bill was standing,. “Really? And if instead of helping you bring water to the island and try to do something with the great big hole in the middle of it, I offered you fifty million dollars for it, what would you do then? You’ve lived here long enough for your blood to be part of this island,” I challenged.The people agreed with my statement. I could see the avarice in the eyes of the council at the offer.“We will need to talk about this,” They told me, and ended the council.I went back to our hut, then requested.