Such a lovely thing, yet such a painful reminder of Matt…She pulled away with a gasp as something pricked her finger, which had traveled down to pet...the stem. Strange - she hadn’t seen any thorns on it, not now or since Matt had given it to her. She stared at her finger, where a small bead of blood began to well up on the tip before trickling down slowly. She huffed softly as her head started to spin. She never usually fainted at the sight of blood, but her vision was starting to blur and there. As he passed almost opposite my position, the horseman removed what appeared to be a campaign hat and ran a hand through sweaty hair. That was when I realized where I had seen him before - going up the face of the cliff next to the waterfall in the valley."Matt!" I shouted through cupped hands as I rose from behind my rock.An M16 appeared and the former stuntman turned his horse to face me, movie style. This made a smaller target of the horse, but a bigger target of him. I made a mental note to. Anyway, one day I had gotten home early from work. I figured that Lacey and Leigh had gone out somewhere, as they normally did while I was at work. However, as I walked by their room on the way to mine, I was halted by one of them giggling. ‘Okay,’ I thought, ‘So they’re home. So what?’ Before I could move, I next heard one of them directing, “Okay, right there. Oooh, that’s perfect! Now rub it a little harder.” ‘Huh?’ I thought, not yet having guessed what this was.As I stood there, I then. But I didn?twant my people to see me as week, even if the threat to my safety wasvery real.I was watching the view of the squabbling Councilors on a view pad as Ihurried up the steps and turned to head for the council chamber.Carlotta entered from the landing pad entrance and they fell silent forjust a moment. ?Have we forgotten Draconian Law?? she demanded. Thencontinued, ?This Council is in violation of Draconian Law.??No we are not. We called this Emergency session in absence of a.