.. she still needed to shave. And she still found it irritating every time, with leg propped up and razor rasping along her calf, her eyes narrowed to...slits.The sudden rapping at the door almost caused her to cut deeper than she wished, and she wicked off some of the cream, yanked her leggings on, and came to the door with a furious face and a crackling intensity to her eyes. “What!?”The man at the door was the Hegemony’s cartho-artifex, a weedy little man with a mustache that almost reached. Her sleep was interrupted by a dream of her marriage dissolving and the events after. Her parents had become overbearing in their attempts to get Sarah to go back to Carson on her knees and beg him to take her back. They did not know, and Sarah did not tell them, that Carson was happy with the 22-year-old secretary from the insurance company and did not want her back. Carson and his new bride were already planning a family. Children were something Sarah could not give him.Sarah awoke slowly and. .. right on top of the creature. Though the creature's lower body was trapped under the car, itcontinued slashing out with its claws, tearing deep gouges in themetal. It growled and hissed, and as Sam watched, slowly pulled itselfout. "Not this time," Sam growled. Deciding not to give the creature another chance to attack him,Sam didn't even wait for it to get all the way to its feet. Sam chargedthe creature, putting every once of energy he had into his punch. Hisfist glowed brightly,. A team was sent for the poles for the big top, with most of the horses to haul them back, and they found they had to rent them from a carpenter's stash of raw building materials.They told him they would just leave them behind when they left, for him to reclaim, and he was happy to get money for them instead of just having them sit in his storage pile. He knew that they wouldn't try to steal them, they were too large to take very far! They had neglected to mention they would be buried four and a.