In today's values it would be worth something like four to four and a half million pounds." Right." Kent mused and then turned to me. "So what has hap...ened to it?" I don't know. In later censuses there was no mention of any of our family in that place. They had simply vanished. The next reference to them is in eighteen eighty-one when a Francis Easton who was William's second son, was working as a lighterman in Chatham. Of his elder brother, who was also a William, there is no mention." How. I wore foundation and eyeliner as I went back in my room, opened the closet and saw three dresses, several skirts and some blouses! I saw a sundress similar to the one Jill wore and pulled it out of the closet. The powder blue dress had twin straps, which made me smile when I realized that like Jill, I would be able to have some very real looking cleavage. Bill and Fred were going to have a cow when they saw me. I pulled on the pantyhose and then the dress, zipping it up, then stepped into the. You saw how those red-eyed men fought. They had no organization or tactics. They outnumbered us three to one, but even with their ambush, there was no way they could have won the battle. Even one of our ranching villages could have handled them. I was the only one who messed up, but I’ll do better next time.”“You’re talking like you’re one of them,” the scout said, facing her and staring at her sigil again.“I guess I am.”“You have an obligation to the High Guard,” he said.“My first obligation. I didn’t want to do it, honestly.”“Who’s ‘They’?”“The Syndicate. They’ve ... had me ... for some time. I didn’t have a choice.”At least I had a name now. Although you’d think they would have gone with something a little less of a cliché.“How did they force you?”“I’ve done stuff for them in the past, and they have proof. If I went against them, I would be disbarred. Probably put in prison.”“I’m a little lost here, Judge. Start from the beginning.”“It seemed so innocent when it started. They’d.