“What happened then?,” she prompted.“It was the high point of the Colonel’s efforts. A brand new center, with a staff of counselors, therapy r...oms, a fully equipped gym, it even had a daycare center. And all services were free. He cut the ribbon while Charlie and I played, then toured the building and attended a reception. The center was built on the banks of a river, and there was a really large deck built out over it. Most of the attendees ended up there, by the buffet tables.”“We were. "Leslie shuffled through her deck of note cards and pulled one out and set it on the table so I could read it. The card read Please. Then she went through the cards again and dug out another one laying it on top of the other one. I promise to pay you back, the next card said. I smiled at her as she frantically rifledthrough her cards looking for the one she wanted. She dropped that card on the table and it read, Eat my lunch box.I didn't wait for her to keep going. "My pleasure," was all I. The meeting was indeed at a large private home which was referred to as the Temple at the end of a long driveway with no neighbors visible. The door greeter was a woman in a sheer white gown who appeared to be close to her own age. “Guess I won’t be out of place,” she thought. Her identity verified, she was shown to a bedroom and instructed to change into a gown like her greeter was wearing.“OK, I guess this is the first test,” she thought and then did as instructed. Timidly stepping out into. It may have always been. I went up to one of the surviving wounded. “Where did you idiots come from?”He looked up sullenly. He said nothing. After a moment, I put a bullet in his chest. Now, he would never talk.I looked over at the last remaining invader. “Do you want to answer my question?”He nodded. “We’re from Marietta. We got pushed out by a gang of police and army. We were looking for a place of our own. Then, you shot us.”“That’s what happens when you invade the property of another. It.