Let us try this. Sadie comes with me. She will be treated kindly once she accepts her fate. You three leave before you regret it." George, put a bulle... in him. I'm tired of games." I quickly strode forward. This might be easier than I thought. I reached George before he could get his musket levelled. I felt the wind blow by me as the shot from the third man missed. I lifted George and held him off the ground. The third man frantically tried to reload. Sadie's father looked on in shock."Put my. This got me interested enough to pay closer attention. I looked around their house and sure enough, I saw a pretty face surrounded by dark blonde hair looking out the living room window. She looked to be around my age, but other than that, I could see little else. She seemed to be looking in my direction, but I couldn't be sure.My musings were interrupted when I heard my father's truck come up the street. It was one of those big dual-wheel jobs that he normally used to haul our trailer, but. "Feel better?" Kari asked with a devilish smile."Mmmm....that was fucking great," I smiled back. "And I thought Del over here was the shy type." Yeah, you need to watch those quiet types, especially once you get them into bed," Kari purred, looking over at her sister lovingly. "You know, she's been really horny lately."I shoved my hand between Delaney's legs, noticing she was indeed wet. "Well maybe I can do something about that, especially after that great head you both gave me."I had Delaney. Droughts and floods were still the Australian markers. I finished my wine. Charlotte seemed engrossed in the final chapters of Tree of Life -- the dressmaker, the concert with the Jewish violinist, Stan’s death; the boy with a piece of glass who would write a poem.I thought of Finnegans Wake and of Mann’s Magic Mountain and the way modern novels end, begin, circle. Eddison, too. Ouroboros. In Antony and Cleopatra she’s wished ‘all the joy of the worm’. But worm might be dragon.“Gordy! Are you.