”“Thank you.” Maddi looked down. “Mom rubbed a lot of her kids the wrong way. I doubt many will want to help make funeral arrangements. Then I...gotta figure out what to do with Christy.” She rubbed her reddened, veiny temples. “Fuck...” Maddi sighed when she felt Savannah’s soft grip on her forearm.“You won’t be alone in all this.” She cooed as she squeezed. “Can I make some phone calls for you?”“That would be amazing.” Maddi burst into tears.“Thanks for coming in, ladies.” Evan Wallace said. He. “It was all I could get on without having to have somebody help dress me.”“Sore?”“Sore? Nah, not so much. I was thinking about doing a marathon today. Of course I’m sore. You know that. You knew that when you planned to torture me yesterday. In fact, I think you did all that on purpose, just so you’d have an excuse to get me all naked and have your nasty, curmudgeonly way with me when I was too weak to resist. I bet you don’t even use any hay in the winter.”“I have some liniment that will. ‘There’s a monster in Sean’s closet,’ Anna said. ‘We’re trying to scare him away.’ ‘Well, Daddy’s trying to sleep,’ Dani said, hiding her smile. ‘And the poor monster probably is, too. Come play downstairs now. We’ll take care of the monster later.’ ‘He’s my Daddy, not yours,’ Anna said to Sean. Dani took Anna by the arm. ‘I don’t ever want to hear you say such a cruel thing again!’ she said. ‘It’s true that your Daddy isn’t really Sean’s Daddy-‘ ‘My Daddy in Heaven,’ Sean interrupted. ‘That’s. The two men arrayed against them cut through their swords as if they were wooden sticks, and the two women, well, one broke their swords like twigs, or twisted them from their grips, meanwhile slitting their throats with her other hand, and the other one kept sticking them with her sharp pointy sword after somehow causing their own blows to fall wide of their marks.After the bloodbath was over, Tuk was slightly ashamed, but the Imperial Guards, who were supposed to be protecting him, had.