Finally, William said, “You have made a good observation.”John nodded and said, “I have made another observation. The young woman desires this m...re than the tribe.”This time, the talk among the elders was much more animated. John could tell that he had hit upon a truth that was already recognized among the elders. One of the other elders asked, “So what are you suggesting John Carter?”“The woman offered herself to me on behalf of the tribe. The tribe did not offer her to me. The tribe is still. He commanded heat, focusing it on the inner workings of the golem, the metal starting to soften. Now that the weight of its hammer had returned to normal, the construct resumed its attack, but it soon faltered as the gears that powered it turned to slag. It was only a matter of melting enough machinery that it could no longer fight, its body seizing up as though it had been frozen in place.Beside him, Kadal was still dueling with her opponent, which was leveraging the long reach of its polearm. Tom moved back through the outer offices of his company and when he got to his main central office, he noticed Samantha wasn't sitting at the desk where she could usually be found when he didn't have her 'busy" behind the closed doors of his inner sanctum. He stopped at the closed doors and then quietly opened them and peeked inside. He quickly saw and heard exactly what he'd hoped to find -- Samantha, his horny personal SEXetary, was sitting in his chair, behind his large wooden desk, and she. Health? So-so, it was relative, I guess.The screw waved to me. He didn’t like me. His Name was Carlos, we’d had words before, he and I. Nothing big, but we didn’t get along. I think he considered me a pansy; I wasn’t, but after the gang rape thing, that’s how he saw me; well, that’s what I thought whether true or not. But anyway, he waved to me. Well, so what.I felt numb. Not good, not bad, just numb. More than six years gone, almost seven, time lost forever, but my baby was safe. I started.