Wanting a closer look I open the patio door, stepping cautiously over the threshold. Standing out in the open, looking up, hearing the next boom and t...en I instinctively count, determining how far away it is by how close together they happen. All of a sudden a voice causes me to jump. I flip my body around to the voice, and grasp my chest like it could have stopped. Squinting to see who it is, he says he is sorry; I see my neighbor as he comes a little closer. I tell him it's okay that I'm a. He killed the man in his usual fashion of ripping out the man's throat. The White men and the Indians all pulled their guns and started shooting at each other, with the dogs contributing their bit.By the time Otto could drop his load of groceries and get outside, the shooting was over with and there were 5 dead men lying in the street. Martha rushed out of the store and into the wagon to check on the children. Both were perfectly OK, but Susan had started to cry after being wakened so. "I could not believe the dining room. There must have been 30 girls or arethey boys all in the same pink lace dress I was wearing. Like uniformsfor everyone. Mary guided me to our table as I was about to faint. We satat a table with other girls or they could be boys. No one talked. I gotup enough courage and said, "help."Mary whispered in my ear, "Ann please do not speak. You are being a badgirl. Only talk when a matron talks to you. These other girls are justlike you, they will not speak until. The mayor was now an enthusiastic supporter of The Octopoid, and the city council went along, also because it wanted to. It's my guess that all of those characters are due for an early funeral. Graft and corruption were running rampant through Mulgoth, and there was nothing that the citizens could do about it. I guess I would know what to do when I got there.All of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere, there came a blast of fire! Honeybunch and Charley's AI put up our heat shield field before any.