It was touch and go for what like seemed like hours but was only a few minutes.During a surprise lull in the shooting we were all shocked to see our e...emies suddenly flying through the air as helicopters converged from all four directions and laid down a deathly stream of fifty caliber destruction. From the ground our lead cars opened up on the attackers with bazookas hastily assembled out of the cartons and shoulder fired into the shooters.In a split second our situation changed from. The rest of her team was bustling around relatively calmly, doing their allocated tasks, working in seamless unison, quietly and methodically. The kitchen was spotlessly clean, perfectly organized with everything always in its place. It seemed relatively stress free, compared to some restaurant kitchens Cyrus had seen before. He enjoyed watching Maria work, ensuring her team was doing everything correctly, putting finishing touches on certain dishes, doing the final taste tests and making sure. ’ ‘Robert, I trust you, and I hope you trust me, so what’s the problem? Half a king-size bed each is probably more room than those skinny beds we’ve been sleeping in.’ Unable to find a coherent argument I agreed, but insisted I slept above the sheets, while Maddy insisted that I have most of the duvet. We dropped the car off and made our way to the check-in. I kept yawning. ‘It looks as if I was wrong and you should have slept in the car.’ ‘Or on the floor.’ ‘Why couldn’t you sleep?’ ‘I worry.’. The old ways are done. Even so ... there is one ... thing that you can do for me,” Sam squirmed now.“What is that?” I asked her.“You can fuck me ... okay, two things, you can bite me, too,” Sam bit her bottom lip, looking a bit flustered, of course.“The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess. What about the old ways being done again?” I observed, more than a little jarred by this sudden turnabout.“No, no, no ... not like that. He forced people to do it ... and offered nothing.