”He turned to Gary and said, “You were a young, dumb man when you encountered an unstable woman. You handled it badly. You’re still dumb by lett...ng that event control your relationship with your sister, after so many years. Grow up.”Ed walked off.Gary said, “I’m still pissed at you.”“I still think you knew what she’d do when you left,” Stacy said.Gary said, “I’m going to check the back of the house.”He glanced over at the garage. The Hugger Betsy had bought for use on the island was parked in. I whispered, “When I stand up, when they are distracted, you run out that door and hide”. “I’m coming out”, I announced. Standing I raised my left hand to my right shoulder feigning injury, and just as I thought, they were all standing in the open. From left to right, the two guards, the banker, and Marcus with a gun in his hand as I expected. “Sorry buddy, it's business, step on out, it’ll be clean and fast”, Marcus grimaced. My left hand jerked outward, the throwing knife purchased. . do that for ‘me’ sometime?”“I can try,” he chuckled. “I’m kind of feeling my way around the muscle groups here, they seem familiar enough.”There was a large web of muscle connecting Lozka’s prehensile tail to her body, far more extensive and developed than he would have expected. It provided her with a lot of leverage, she could probably use it to lift her own bodyweight. As he began to work at it, Lozka loosed another rumbling purr of encouragement, the power of coherent speech seeming to. A trump card I had acquired just yesterday. In this area itself!Just beside my unresponsive core was another core, very small in size compared to mine but beating rapidly, much faster than mine had ever pulsed. The strings of both cores were just floating in the air, almost in contact with one another but never quite touching. I just did the first thing that came to my mind. I just connected one string of each core with one another and the change was immediate. My core gave out a faint sound.