“Thompson. Your the best liar I know.” I looked over at Thompson. He had first hand knowledge of how smugglers operated because he was one in the ...ilitary. He was a necessary evil when we were deployed since he was that guy who could get things that the brass frowned upon as long as you didn't ask to many questions. That was part of the reason I had picked him since he worked well in what many called a gray area.“ Tell them some one made off with some radioactive material from one of the mines. It was lunchtime and really cold outside. Really, really cold with a vicious wind that drove cruel, icy spikes through every piece of clothing anyone wore. It never really snowed around there, we were too far south for that, but that just meant the school wasn't built to protect us from weather like that, and no-one had the sort of clothes that people have in places where it snows, so we just had to wrap our arms around ourselves and dart frantically from one piece of shelter to the. They buried them both side by side and Saul hitched Blackie to the back of the wagon and knew that the slow pace of the wagon would be easy for him to keep up with his bad leg because those oxen were steady and slow moving but they could haul a heavy load and later be used to plow the fields of the planned ranch that the father and mother would not be able to see in reality.Saul told the girls and the unflappable granny, “I will take you to a nice valley where my brother and I have plans to set. ”“Goddammit, spit it out,” I grumbled.“You know how Lindsey and Kayla are good friends?”“Yes.”“And you know how Reg spends so much time away?”Oh god.“Yes.”“Well, they’re really good friends.”“Are you fucking with me right now? Is that it? Is this some kind of emotional payback?”“No, darli…”“Don’t “darling” me!” I growled. “If there’s something more, spit it out.”Speaking in a low, quick monotone, she said, “Kayla came over one day to work on something and found Lindsey and me swimming naked..