The smoke billowed up through the opening, though it was much darker than I would expect. The smell was delicious, and I found myself looking forward ...o the taste.I heard movement behind me and saw Lillian walking out of the storage room. She wore a chestnut coloured dress that was accented by her fiery red hair. She was carrying a bowl full of potatoes and had not noticed me.“Oh, Davik! I did not hear you get back,” she said with a warm and inviting smile. “Did your hunt not go well?”I looked. Dad had never said anything about him. As far as the five of us knew, this man had never existed.A day's drive found us square in the middle of Bumfuck, Texas with only a mansion in near sight. Behind that mansion was an empty farm with a pair of massive red barns in the distance. An older woman, likely in her forties, declared herself as his lawyer. She went on to explain that the will stated this mansion belong to us. But the biggest shock came when his lawyer turned to me with a growing. ’ ‘We’re way past that,’ John smiled and was met with a serious gaze. ‘I have to show you something.’ Amy held a stack of magazines close to her chest. ‘Remember how I asked if I could send that photo you took into Runner’s World?’ ‘What?’ John’s face lit up. ‘They actually used it?’ Amy grinned and nodded while biting her lip and looking down, she matched his exuberance with shyness. ‘Page 42,’ she handed him a magazine. John flipped to the page and saw the photo of Amy, the one he took. As expected, she was startled when the snow pile simply disappeared. The beam fired by the blaster was actually an X-ray laser and invisible to ordinary sight. “Okay, Sunshine, I hope you understand what you just did. Now, engage the safety and put the blaster in your pocket. Remember, all you have to do to shoot the blaster is to disengage the safety and pull the trigger.“Let’s go through the motions again. Remove the blaster from your pocket, set it for repeat shots, disengage the safety, and.