The platoon had been inserted to follow the trail.For two hours they had cautiously followed the streaks of blood. Someone, probably more than one som...one from the marks in the dusty soil of the trail, had been seriously hurt. They had found nothing else though. There had been no bodies, no weapons, no supplies.Taylor held his hand up in an alert signal. The entire platoon froze. Then "Get down" came from the point man and a burst of AK47 fire swept through the area.Even as the platoon reacted,. "Not yet. I've got people gathering up as much of the wreckage as possible so that I can look through it. Elise has used her scanners and she tells me that there are no signs of explosives or any accelerant, so I think we can rule out sabotage. Everyone is so focused on beating the Zytol that that would be a slim possibility anyway," said Thomas.Ben didn't share with Thomas Sarah's suspicions that someone had tried to assassinate him. If she was right, then there might be someone out there. I was tired of living hand-to-mouth. I was tired of your poor friends, and their low-class wives, and the burden of being a wife and mother all the time. ‘I wanted to keep my smooth hands and young looking skin. I wanted my beauty to last forever. I didn’t want to look like my mother after a lifetime of work — a wrinkled old crone by the time she was forty.’ She paused and then spoke again. ‘I think that I was always like that, even as a child, I was selfish and self-obsessed as Narcissus. ‘I. “I am perhaps the most perfect being ever created, as is my brother.” She waved a hand back toward where the male was still standing. Her eyes shifted toward his bow, to where the arrow was aimed at her chest. There were no pupils in those caverns of fire, but Anduriel could somehow sense where she was focusing.Anduriel didn’t see her move; rather there was a sense of motion, and suddenly his bow was gone and he was flying backwards. He landed on his back with a thud, the breath leaving his.