There was a dress sidearm but most of us used our regular sidearms. For dress occasions it was pushed back over the kidney so it was out of the way. O... my left shoulder was the Phantom patch, a black circle with a vague gray figure and red shining eyes. On the right shoulder was the Shadow patch, a gray circle with a darker shimmering figure also vague and indistinct with shining yellow eyes. We don't wear decorations or 'I was there' ribbons. It was a very trim uniform and looked. I kept thinking you two were going to be gone again when Kathy said three black suits were here. All of us get really scared sometimes, especially when we're away from home."Lisa and I hugged Brandy who happily went back to the dining table.We were able to leave for the bus tour on time and enjoyed the day. The tour director had made sure there were food and restroom stops. We had big comfortable busses so the babies could take naps. It was fun to drive out to an area that had several 'mobs' of. Her name is Lilliana, and she's kindly agreed to let you stay with her family for the tour."She said, handing me a piece of paper with her name, phone number, address and picture on."That's alright, I assume?" she said, smiling up at me, as if there were nothing wrong with sharing a house with a Spanish girl I had never met before and giving me a look that made it clear that it was a hypothetical question."Err... yeah, um... of course." I replied, flustered."Brilliant. I'm sure you two will get. But we kept a wide berth around the village until I was ready to confront them as a people. The time was way overdue and I didn’t completely understand my reluctance so far. I was seemingly much more comfortable with the a****l world and our solitude than to reenter the complex inter-relational dynamics of the human species.But, I was allowing myself the time to spend with b**st in our secure little environment. We had just committed ourselves to each other in our created ceremony that was.