I'm starting ... to understand. I'm going to ... reach for my swords now ... and see ... what I can do," said Ariel as she slowly started to sweat a l...ttle less.As she drew her swords she started to go through her practice form and the swords took on an eerie sound as her hands and swords disappeared with her movements.Once again Nathan was impressed with her movements. But the combination of her eyes and the sounds the swords made still unnerved him.Also during their practices he found that. I am confident they would act promptly to detain your colorful trio of killers.'"Why not do so now? No, don't answer that. I appreciate your dilemma. I will do as you request, your Grace. Will you attend the meeting?" No. I would prefer to remain in the background." In that case, goodbye your Grace."As the Convener ended the call he sent for his executive officer and issued the necessary instructions to arrange the emergency Council meeting for eight o'clock Thursday morning at the farm.Then he. I pushed thoughts of those terrible times away. Michael was now so happy. Those were truly terrible times when he was in shock, hurting and betrayed by the only woman he had ever loved.I forced myself to think of the aftermath instead - the wonderful five years we had shared, the birth of our daughter, and the love we shared every day. I looked at the 2 carat engagement ring on my left hand and remembered the day he gave it to me.We had just left his meeting with Helene. He returned to the. If the TG owned the H&T right-of-way, they could charge as much as they wanted to for freight to use the shortcut.Smedly could claim to be innocent of any wrong doing in the H&T affair, since all he was doing was buying a defunct railroad and trying to sell it at a profit. That was something any businessman would do. It looked like the only way to nail Smedly was to find enough evidence against Harrington that he would implicate Smedly just to lift some of the pressure from himself.Jed and Al.