Pat and his women, and Petra's Father plus the others all gathered around to listen."All of your Clans deserve to be, and will be promoted to the rank...of Major Factions for your support of me and the Union," Grandfather Michael told them before adding, "Those Factions and governments that supported the rebellion will be demoted, fined and their leaders, those that have survived, will be tried for treason." There was silence at his words."The Eternal Flame appeared to me last night to inform me. We got backgammon out and Becka and Kevin started a game that involved aggressive and cut-throat tactics which was the norm for those two. Rebecca was on her third glass of wine and getting pretty smashed when she knocked half of Kevin's markers off the board. She was in hysterics and we both grabbed her and brought her to the floor as Kevin tickled her feet and I held her arms down. "Stop iiiittt!" she laughed and Kevin finally stopped. She was lying down, her long hair disheveled, Kevin. ." Felicity trailed off, seeing some reasoning in Shelley's idea."Why not give it a try? At the worst you meet a nice girl and find out you don't like pussy, what have you got to lose?"Felicity considered this and decided she had just lost her boyfriend, so she really didn't have much to lose. "Sure." Felicity decided."Okay, I know a place that will make it easy for you to make the transition from Guys to Girls." Really?" Yea, grab your shit, lets go." Shelley finished picking up her purse. “No knives, “ I turned held my arms out wide and and addressed the ring of braves around us, “no knives, only bare hands and bare honor.”The cacophony of baying braves, both captors and captive, was deafening. Ahanu looked around at the braves he had so recently led, his eyes wide in fear. “Put down the knife,” Walla was shouting clearly, “Put down the knife!”I looked at Mataoka one last time, knowing that I might not see her ever again, but somehow not afraid. As I looked at her I knew I was.