Shame on you."Bozo raised his head, got up and walked over to Jill as if he'd been summoned.The next one up was Mom. She was blatant about it, leaning...forward with an elbow on the table, raising herself up to one cheek and letting go. It was a fart that would have done me proud."Mah-um!"She ignored my sister. "Good chili, Jill."Jill lifted up and let one go for real this time."I enjoy it. The beans are real good."That got a laugh out of everybody but Mary, who look around at everybody, a. “It isn’t that you took one, it’s that you know they’re there at all. People even kill other people today over that kind of thing.”“Kill?“ I say in disbelief. “For plant?““Not for the plant itself, but so they won’t be discovered to have it. For twenty or thirty plants the person who’s growing them could go to jail for ten years or more.”“This is madness!” I exclaim. “This plant, this marijuana, has many good uses that help people.”“I know, but we have other things now for those uses,” she. I sobbed as I planted my face against the brick wall. I let my face scrape the wall as I fell to my knees. Who fucking cares. I could feel the blood start to bead up down the left side of my face and body as I lay on the floor crying like a helpless child. Ill never see you again! I screamed again and again. Fuck you Kaleb. You will never have me again I reached for the ring on my finger. Jakes class ring. I would rather go like this than be tortured ever again I tried to convince myself. I. “My source has not been wrong about anything yet,” Remulus said with a nod.“I cannot stop Junius from taking action,” Augustus said. “That would be tantamount to admitting we are scared of another country.”“I can see the problem with that,” Remulus admitted. “I ask you only to consider the ramifications of permitting the expedition. Scared and alive is sometimes preferable to brave and dead.”“Did you come to bring me these ill tidings or have you formulated a plan for our success?” Augustus.