??To emphasize this, I’ve had your eyes patched over. Those patches sewn over your eyes may or may not be temporary; I’ll decide later. You have...no need to see anymore, after all. All you need to do is obey. This will teach you to properly rely on me.??You no longer have a name, either. All I will ever address you as is ‘pet’, or ‘little one’, or some variation on those. Property, after all, has no need to be named.?Tears soaked Kara’s eye-patches – tears of fear, tears of sorrow, tears. I felt that Jim should know. Love to all, MariaWill motioned to me from the office as I drove in. Manny and the crew chief were seated with Will and he had already repeated our earlier discussion. "You three go down and inspect that work-face and area with a fine-tooth comb. Imagine a worst case scenario and see what you can set up for a reasonable escape plan. I'm going to put the rest of the crew making another exit through that drift that the stope connects to on the second level.Going down. "We both burst out laughing, and I realised then that Madame Blanchard had a spirit that would not be amiss in a girl of eighteen. We finished laughing, and once again she gave me that cool, searching gaze."Tell me Major, why are you really here? It is not to return the miniature; it does not belong to me. The sword, pistol and snuff box were gifts to my son, and I suppose they should have been buried with him."I felt the implied rebuke. "The items were removed to help track down the family of. We shoveled a lot of it.Three days later, right when I was beginning to fear the team would pack up and leave me all alone, they found the body, still clad in the remains of her old housecoat all wrapped in the Navaho blanket, still holding on to her purse with her skeletal fingers still gripping it tight. An hour later they found the bodies of his previous two victims, his previous wife and her young son. For the first time in twenty years I began to feel that there might be some hope left in.