No more grenades were thrown back, and Kieu-Linh took up the belt again, feeding the gun as quickly as it pulled for more. Hitch could tell the barrel...was already getting hot, flames spurting out and smoke starting to sizzle from the tip. He couldn't keep up the rate of fire without cooling it down. "Pour a canteen on it!" He screamed, pointing to the hot barrel.Kieu-Linh ducked a moment as more fire came their direction. When Hitch pinned it down, she rose up, rounds still zinging close by her. Dad was in the insurance business and had got a big promotion so we moved out east. Eventually he opened his own business. Throughout the years we would go and visit my grandparents at least twice a year.I wasn't really close to them seeing I didn't know them that well. They were always nice to me and sent me presents for the different holidays and my birthday. But it was basically Dad and I as a team.He had girlfriends but said he would never get married again till I was grown up. He didn't. We could search for the clues on how to destroy the amulet weighing about my neck and recover from the last two weeks of hard travel and stress. I fought back a yawn, heartened by that as we kept heading southeast, marching through the forest to reach its southern edge and meet up with Princess Ava.Ealaín marched with a stoic indifference that I envied. The horse the aoi si led was stolen by Aingeal and her trickery. The faerie flitted through the woods with such joy, reveling in the. " She said.I wasn't waiting for Dad's return with my usual eager anticipation as I could see my new found freedoms and privileges coming to an end. In fact I was actually dreading his homecoming.I slid over in the seat and reached down to the hem of Mothers dress and pulled on it in an attempt to bare her lower half."Stop that now!" she ordered, putting her free hand down and trying to stop my manoeuvres, "this will have to stop right now. Your Dad mustn't find out or there will be hell to pay!.