Leif crawled out apprehensively, tipping his head only high enough to see Sir Glen sit on a stool in the room. ‘Leif, I tried for the life of me I d...d try.’ He began with a sigh. ‘Who told you that this was calling?’ Leif only shook his head. ‘One day I was an outsider, the next, I was Sir Colin’s.’ ‘Sir Colin was very wrong. I didn’t think he could be this wrong.’ ‘If I might Sir Glen, what are you talking about?’ ‘Leif, you are not a companion, you should have never been brought to a conclave. A howling madness erupted from the bowels of the fortress, as the way had now been made clear. Where once had the doors stood, now stood a great dark opening, an inky void inviting her in, traveling deep into the darkness of a Vervatran Lightning-Fort. Tivanosa entered with the powers of lightning wrapped tightly around her hands, bright arcs sizzling around in orbit, ready to incinerate any that came before her in the halls and corridors. Thus did she come to stand within the lobby, feeling at. We will never sell," raising the shotgun at the men. “You’ll have to kill us.” Just about that time, the man came around from the back and as he turned around the front side Hank made his move. Moving up behind the horses he pulled his colt and shot in front of the man coming up to the woman. Stopping him, he pointed his gun at the men on horseback and said, “Drop the hardware boys. Why don’t we talk about this before one of you gets hurt?” The guns hit the dirt and the lady with the shotgun. A mixed mob of marines, sailors (both Navy and Auxiliary Fleet), cadets and concubines happily escorted an only slightly embarrassed naked girl from the welcome-home party at the Junior Ranks Club to the Medical Inspection Room. The senior corpsman himself, Sergeant Benson, was standing in the doorway of the M.I.R. pod, waiting to give the aforementioned naked girl her CAP test. For today was Samantha Redburn's fourteenth birthday, as the chorus of "Happy Birthday to You!" announced to all and.