'Her wings were wrapped and folded unnaturally behind her, caught as her captors rolled her up in the netting that was binding her. 'Oh, God ... They'...e still broken... 'Beth closed her eyes against the dizzying display of lights that were now passing beneath her. She figured out she was tied to the bottom of some kind of aircraft. 'These must be the people who made me sick at Tanya's apartment. How did they catch me way out here?'She was still a little angry about being poisoned while she was. . South.I was sitting on a wooden barrel cleaning my Spencer Carbine yet again. I knew I did it too often but old habits are hard to break. I never cleaned it without having a back-up weapon next to me just in case the sneaky Johnny Rebs decided to play at infiltration. It had been my experience in this time period of the American Civil War that neither side did that very much at all preferring to pound each other to little pieces on the open battlefield. I can’t even blame it on the terrain or. Melanie had a conservative upbringing and been plain by comparison to her older sister Nicole. Nicole was vibrant and wild when they were younger. Their mother butted heads with Nicole, and Melanie felt it was better not to make trouble because she knew her mom had head hands full with Nicole. Nicole was always running off with boys in high school, and by the time she was 20, she had moved to Van Nuys to become a stripper. Nicole had her life together now, and a son of her own but they had not. Like every day. Ishould have gotten used to it. But still every day I winced at the brightsun and needed a moment for my eyes to adjust. I definitely wasn't amorning person. And yes I was aware of the irony. After I could see againwithout tears coming to my eyes I started walking to my 'work'. Not thatI had to walk anywhere to do my work. I just preferred to be found in onespot.As I walked on the sidewalk I heard the sound of my high heels. Anotherthing I still wasn't used to. Even after ten.