Bill led them to a stand of trees where they dismounted, and Bill held Annie in his arms until she was finally able to get herself back under control....They remounted and rode away.Bill led them to a swift stream, and they rode upstream about two miles before he led them to the main road leading into Hendly Pass. There were so many tracks already on the road that there was no worry about them being tracked into town, even if they were followed from the stream.They returned to the hotel and went. The faces of the two women I lived with—my aunt and my younger sister—surfaced momentarily from the depths of my selfishness, but I closed my eyes to them.Aunt Riley was getting by just fine without my help, and Jessie—You’re running away from it.—was better off without a useless brother like me. I selected “no” again.There was no third prompt.Since I didn’t have anywhere in particular to go, I walked aimlessly around my small coastal Florida town of Navarre taking pictures of whatever happened. He’d even seen one on a bulletin board in the break room. He did nothing to stop the explorations, figuring they were better to deal with facts than rumor, gossip, and innuendo.Jenny came back from lunch and set a plastic box with a chicken wrap in it in front of Dave. He was zoned out editing the CES presentation and reviewing the display booth for EneRG. She had chips and an unsweetened iced tea for him, too. “You have to eat and keep your strength up. After all, how will you ever keep up. It was only because of his constant moving of his wrists behind his back that both of his arms were not completely paralysed.As soon as the sun was up, a woman accompanied by two guards came to feed him. He was then taken to a hole near the edge of the village where he was allowed to relieve himself. Once again, he was taken back to the same post and tied up.The guards went away but the woman remained near a fire close by and she got busy cooking a stew in a big clay cauldron. She had been kind.