“No stoke, Heimlick!” Lannie spat at him. “I noticed! There are two more! That’s one pitchfork apiece! Let’s go!”“No! Wait!” Sy yelped... tackling her slender form as she rose to climb out of the ditch. “Settle down! You’re going to get us killed! We have to stay hidden!”“Well, hiding here isn’t going to save us if they fire another Thumper,” Lannie grunted, barely able to breath under Sy’s weight on top of her.“They won’t fire another one,” Sy explained, fiercely holding her down. “They have. But it takes us to move a hundred miles from home to meet.“Rob mentioned that there was an issue at the game on Saturday, some wanker sniffing around.”I really should have guessed he would find out. I must remember that they will talk. It’s not like I did anything wrong, just didn’t want to upset him.“Yes, but it was dealt with.” I went on and explained and told him of the rumour.“Why didn’t you mention it?”“I just didn’t want you to get upset when it had all been dealt with. Especially. Then one time I sat on the swing and had Jen sit on my lap facing me and we would swing together. It was hard to build up any altitude but we had a good time anyways. We would go down the slide with her sitting on my lap and crash into a jumbled heap at the bottom laughing our fool heads off.One especially fun thing was to play tag on the monkey bars. I would give her a head start and then climb up to try to catch her. Once I tagged her I would take off across the bars trying to avoid her. “My mama left me and I never had a father, but I want a daddy.”The others were watching and listening speechlessly. Hassika threw up her arms and turning to Meyra and Chalissa she broke the silence.“See what I mean! She is an unpredictable nightmare. She treats Menja so caring and sweetly that my teeth are aching. At the same time she is probably planning a mass murder a few minutes from now when we reach the temple,” Hassika burst out exasperated.“As women we are perfectly fine with doing more.