Anyway, we wuz operatin' on what the Army called "heightened alert."The Army left an' the Injuns got the hint. The trouble started slowly, but it was ...teadily increasin', 'til we had a full fledged war on our hands, again. At least, by this time, the Henryville militia had nearly 50 men in "uniform," so we were in pretty good shape an' could meet them Creek Injuns in open battle. I hoped that this time we could suck them into a battle what would discourage 'em from botherin' us any more.The. ‘Hey!’ Reno leaped to his feet and sprinted down the hall after Rude. ‘What stuff?’ ‘You know… ‘stuff’… like how you got those pictures of Elena. She was only gone for 2 days, was that really what she was smiling about?’ ‘Eh, those,’ Reno shrugged, falling into step with Rude. ‘Can’t say why I was taking them… not supposed t’have the copy. They were for… someone else…’ ‘And then there’s the guy from receiving… there’s things I’m not real sure about from his side of the story.’ He gave Reno a. I know for a fact that she never intended to become intimate with me. It just happened. I think of it like osmosis, where elements of my consciousness somehow transferred into her consciousness, until it felt like we’d known each other all our lives, and had been best friends for the same amount of time.That first manifested itself when, one night, she got out of the tub in our apartment and walked over to her bed, drying off, as if walking around in the room naked like that was completely. When I heard him say “hello”, I came to my senses and quickly hung up the phone before he could say anything else. I nervously sat there by the phone for a few minutes, wondering what the hell I was thinking, and then my phone rang. My phone display was showing room 4719, and at that moment I realized that he was able to see my room number when I called him a few minutes earlier. I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of that before I called him. I decided that I’d better answer the phone so.