" I put him back on hold, and picked up the other line."Gentlemen. We will talk about blame later. I have the Governor of Texas on the phone and he te...ls me he asked unsuccessfully for help and intel, due to hundreds of ISIS terrorists on the move, across eastern Texas, from a training base relatively near Texarkana."Defense, you are ordered to respond forthwith. Use whatever you need. Weapons are loosed, and the orders of engagement are this: Kill every single terrorist. Stop whatever they are. Edy thought they were all pretty cool, feeling herself pretty special for being included in their almost nightly gatherings. She particularly felt close to one, Abel or Abe, and it was only one week into her becoming a member of their little gang that he walked her into the darkness of an intersecting alley and kissed her. Edy felt the kiss to be the normal beginning of a hoped-for relationship, but when Edy pulled Abe in tight and kissed him back, his hands went straight to her breasts,. Onthe way I got up the courage to ask how the wedding was, and how thenewlyweds were doing. Megan became a little less animated, possiblybecause she knew it was a painful subject for me, and said the weddingwasn't too bad, and they were doing fine. That didn't sound to me like arousing endorsement, and I wisely changed the subject. The front dooropened as we came up the walk, and Mrs. McCowan greeted me with a bigsmile and a hug, and she invited me to take my coat off and come in fora soda or a. "Let's go, lock and load! Weapons safeties OFF, set for stun, double time! MOVE, you turkeys!!" The troops vanished one by one into the four transporters, to emerge at the four corners of the school yard for maximum shock value.Tribune Whitefeather turned to the Major. "See you later."Major MacAllistor grunted. "Good luck with your scoop this afternoon." He paused before he entered the nexus. "I wonder how many concubines from this lot we'll have to recycle?" He then vanished from the Sir.