.. but I suspected she wanted something from me. She had more than once invited me to her tent at darker hours of the day, but I always nicely decline.... I was not sure if what she wanted from me was something I was willing to give her, or any other woman.Five days from the day I had almost killed a man with just my looking at him, I had the dream again, the dream of the fortress and the tower where I fell down on my back. But this time, I climbed upwards the ladder, but I fell down when I had. .. and fire back. A second later, where the other security guard had been, there was nothing but a smoking corpse. "Carl!" I gasped, then quickly shut my mouth, afraid to make a sound and give myself away. Though I barely knew the guy, I couldn't help but feeling bad about his getting killed. And after seeing that, there was no way that I was going to try playing hero too. I crouched down behind the dumpster, still looking out at the armored women who were taking over the facility. Then I. Then I was thrown over a horse; my captor was all I had to survive.”“When we have completed this campaign, that will never happen to another child again.”“I know, but when I look back at what I have experienced, I am here today with you because of it. It’s difficult to think what I might have been if I had not been taken.”“If you had chosen to remain, you might be stealing children yourself now instead.”“That was the other fork of the road,” he agreed.Rogard eased his horse up then. “You know,. The other men behind the desk didn’t even turn their heads.The X-Ray machine beeped as I stepped through it, and I turned my attention to the two men beginning to wave metal and bomb detector wands. “That won’t be necessary.” The security detail blinked and moved back; at the same instant, I glimpsed the guard at the desk lifting a phone to his ear. “And you won’t announce me,” I shot at him. The handset was quietly placed back in its cradle.The last guard stood in front of the bank of.