’ I laughed. Then added seriously, ‘I need those to be working just as soon as possible.’ ‘I know Boss. I promise, I will have them working be...ore the end of day tomorrow.’ ‘Fair enough,’ I said. ‘So did your mother enjoy seeing you on the big time news?’ ‘She loved it, even though I wasn’t the hero, she was telling all her friends to watch. She is just sure it will be on all day long.’ ‘If it is, then it really is a slow news day.’ ‘With Gwen and Mike pushing it, the story just might have. ”“OK.”I went to the kitchen and started working on dinner. The girls started on homework which left me alone with my thoughts. I went back over my relationship with Kara, trying to figure out where I’d gone so horribly wrong. I kept coming back to the conversation that she and I had about limits and how I should have drawn a clear line for her. What I hadn’t realized is just how fragile Kara was, and the tightrope she was walking between her life before that first day in chemistry class and. They told me that early in the morning, raiders came over the walls and took out the sentries. From what they reported, these were Comanchero mercenaries. Before the alarm could be raised, the enemy was inside the walls. The carnage was horrendous. No mercy was spared for man, woman, or child. By the end of it, The Ruis family had been slaughtered, no survivors. Including Old Man Manuel’s great-great-granddaughter, six months old, and her head bashed in. Some said that Farnsworth himself did. He assured me that everything would be alright and he would call me in about four hours when he got back. I could tell he was worried and everything was not alright. Sometimes you just had to play the hand that you were dealt. We waited.It was the longest four hours of my life. Then the longest five hours, then the longest six hours. I was worried, but I was not feeling any worry from Patrick. We were not connected per se, as both of us thought that might be dangerous, but I still thought I.