You need to withdraw your pledge." Why?" You don't belong. There are lots of reasons why, but you just proved one of them in that classroom. These gir...s will eat you alive. Honest."Bethany was terse, much as she had been all semester to Shannon. She said only that, and then walked away.Shannon was confused. More confused than she had been for a while. The clearest interpretation she could make of Bethany's manner was something... ... something like concern. And at the moment, it seemed genuine.. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. No, no, he then said, make that a Bud Light: and he had one. And God drank the beer and it was good.And the Lord God grimaced and an enchanted gust of wind blew forth from him. And the Fart blew the waters of the earth together unto one place, leaving dry land for God to rest his beer on. (Incidentally, a less well known consequence of this holy hurricane was that it caused Lucifer, God's favorite angel, to quit his post as God's errand. ‘Tequilla it is.’ Teemu smiled, ordering the drinks. ‘Anything else to go with that?’ ‘Yeah, a vodka and squirt. That should be enough for the night.’ She replied. ‘I’m not a big drinker.’ Teemu laughed. He looked deep into her eyes and said, ‘You’re going to get me into trouble, you know that don’t you?’ ‘I don’t know what you mean. How can I get you into trouble? We’re not doing anything but having a couple of drinks.’ She glanced his way, not wanting him to notice that she was a bit nervous.. Damn few mortar men carried rifles, most preferred a brace of pistols that could be tucked in their belts and that didn't require twenty pounds of paraphernalia to load and shoot.They rode into the quiet town then, eyes turning every which way. They came to the largest building in the place, a three story building of heavy adobe construction, built like a fortress, with a four foot wall around it. It was to one side of the main plaza, with a fountain centered in the plaza. Nothing moved, no one.