I’m going to go back and hide the tracks from the last part of the ride in. When I get back we’ll start digging.”Tom nodded and turned to do as ...’d asked. I rode back to where we’d stopped the wagons, and did what I could to erase the tracks from there, to our camp in the bowl.I topped the ramp on my return to find Tom had finished taking care of the animals, and was nearly finished setting up the camp. I unloaded the metal detector, two shovels, and four burlap bags from the wood box Anna had. The man shuddered, confused, had she spared him, was he to be a prisoner?. “On your fucking knees cunt” Tight Skirt ordered him, he instantly obeyed her, she grabbed him by the hair and lifted his head.Meanwhile, James and Edward could not see the confrontation, but they heard sounds of surprise from the patrol, they heard high pitched screams and cries from the girls as they fought the men, the sound of steel echoed loudly as the fight gathered momentum, there were loud male voices, then a. The room was silent as wood scraped on wood. The new recruits started to get up to help their Count, but he gave them a gesture that said “I’ve got this, and finally finished facing it the way he wanted.“Thank you all. I apologize, I have spoken at a number of graduations and I have never gotten used to giving a speech for people to whom I am turning my back.”The audience chuckled at his comment. Then the hush fell over the room again, and he spoke.“I will not say that I am proud of you. This. " The young man nodded reverently as he watched Thundering Buffalo wipe his knife, and put it away.Thundering Buffalo and Fighting Hawk sat as Silent Wind wrestled the body out of the Spirit Lodge. Neither man spoke until the sounds of activity had died away. "I should have done that years ago, but I never knew how bad that he really was. I was an old man and I didn't think that I could still take a young warrior. If you hadn't helped me I would be dead now." Thundering Buffalo looked older and.