.magicexists, what we're going to try today is too bizarre to believe." How so?" This orb thing isn't natural; we're playing with fire. You guys actl...ke it's nothing, like you have this mystical crap lying around." Heshook his head. Seanna shrugged. "I guess growing up around it has made me a littlenumb. When your Aunt Rhiannon has a dragon claw pendant that canshrink you to the size of a pixie, or your Uncle Conall is an ancientwerewolf, a body switching orb doesn't seem all that. I knew I loved her, but I thought that once I'd left Kenya she would forget me."The look he had on his face said it all. I wish I could have taken a photograph, or had the skill to paint what I saw. It was real honest to goodness love, and pure bliss. I congratulated him, and thought that perhaps Doogie Blantyre really did have a kipper for a cock, and two goldfish as offspring.The Americans had been active in Uzbekistan ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union, and when the Northern. We were both fine with this as long as we had full disclosure after, and invitations to participate if it was feasible.One non-sexual surprise—at least, not directly sexual—was that we were both five years off guessing each other's age. I thought Winn and I were the same age—thirty—and she thought I was ten years younger than her. I was never good at judging a woman's age, but I didn't think she was 35 or that I looked 25. "You tried to be a cougar," I teased one day," but only managed the. "Ask him what the Lieutenant did to deserve to be brought back like this." Fighting Hawk remained quiet as William asked in Cheyenne. Fighting Hawk did not answer immediately, but continued to meet the Colonel's gaze.Then he also spoke very quietly, but forcefully, "The Lieutenant tried to start a war between our people when he ordered his solders to ride through the Cheyenne village. When I told him that he couldn't, he told me that he was quite willing to start a war with a bunch of savages.