I took one more skull, this time from DirtyAsHell, and I handed the last one back to him. That went over real well also, and I could tell that I had a...couple of big fans amongst the local unwashed stinking cave dwellers. Once the ceremony was over, the women got to work cleaning out the hides, and Red-Face opened up the grass parcels and gave me a lot of really dirty but freshly killed cow meat. I spent a long moment looking at all that perfectly good cow, and thought of steaks. My mouth. That meant there was something preventing it from shutting.There between the screen door and the inner door was my package. My heart leapt as I casually grabbed the box and headed inside. Once inside I lowered the blinds and pulled the drapes shut. I now had total privacy.After placing the package on the bed my next stop was the shower. I was forced to submit myself to a blast of ice cold water as I was getting excited about the contents of the box. I dried off and then naked, I headed to my. "Prepare to commence firing," he told them, knowing, of course, that they were already prepared.The actual guns were located half a kilometer outside the base wall, spread out over an area nearly a kilometer in length. Large concrete and steel reinforced structures housed each gun mechanism and protected the crew inside from casual bombardment or counter-battery fire from 150mm guns if they happened to be in range. The barrels of each gun were thirteen meters in length and, when not in use,. The discussion was focused on how the home schooling was going from the head teacher’s point of view. Fortunately, all Dave heard was excitement and good news, as well as a nearly endless list of ideas to implement as soon as time permitted.Dave read for a while, often stopping to talk to some of his friends as they strolled around the patio of the core rekindling friendships dormant for the prior week.Around lunch he spotted Kellie pulling Helen along behind her as they came between two of the.