“Explain yourself, madam!” I growled, my hands clenching into fists. My fingernails bit into my palms.The Silver Lady cocked her head as she looke... at me. “Virginia is gone, Traveler. You will see an echo of her thrice more ... and on the third time, your heart will break, my poor, poor Resh.” She reached out to me, her fingers caressing my cheek. The urge to slap her wrist away hard enough to send this ethereal woman sprawling was so intense that it took a choking effort of will to suppress. I met her husband and k**s, they were high school age and always gone. Hubby was a loser who was always looking for a handy man job because he couldn't hold a regular one. He finally ended up as a house hubby, simply taking care of the housework while Carolyn earned the paycheck. This made her a bit dominant with him, and he simply took it.I had Carolyn's nipples pierced, we both wanted that, and she couldn't wait to show them off to him. I asked what was said and she replied nothing. I simply. Takasugi Shinsaku, in spite of his illness, took command of the Choushuu army and led them to victory like the god of war himself. Without seeing the dawn of the new era, he died two years later. His death poem was "I made an uninteresting world interesting." His life was such that he wrote only the first line of the poem, not the last... 1868. The Boshin War. Saitou Hajime was separated from the mainforce in the third battle of the Aizu war. Duels to the death spread around him until the last.. Dad had pushed her when I was in the house, there was no telling what else he may do if it were just those two. Uncle Paul could sense that I was a little uneasy due to the news he just shared. "Hey Tony, don't worry about your mom. She is a big girl and she has my number on speed dial if she needs me to pick her up at any time. While sis is gone, I thought just us boys could hang out and do something fun tonight," he suggested. Hearing that did ease my mind and actually made me feel kind of.