" Laughing, again in a super mood, she bounced out of the Escalade and met Bill in front to walk beside him into the country restaurant that had just ...pened for breakfast. Two older men that certainly didn't look like tourists were just receiving their first cups of coffee.The sign over the door just said:MARTHA'SThis place is the epitome of a country restaurant, but it smells heavenly in here, Kathy thought as they walked in and picked a booth. She listened to the two in the next booth. Do you think Banzai would like an MRE?”I looked at him to see he was tossing, turning and moaning, ‘no more’. I said, “I think he needs sleep more than anything else.”The Corporal made us a couple of MREs and doctored them up some similar to how Banzai made his. They were good, but not as good as his...Flashback – Masha – The next dayThe alarm sounded, Louise practically jumped out of bed and asked, “What the hell is that for?”I replied, “I always get up a little early, do some light exercises. There was a reason the sidhe called us reapers. The men had brought it back after so long without using it. The ancient mages that had bred our mothers had used spells to create us and that was what had destroyed them. The next day I shifted and turned the thoughts back on the four assassins and sent them after the men that had paid them.When I left the exchange I had followed the thought of an eatery or what he had called a restaurant. Since it was early evening I wore the dark side out on my. "Whether this aphorism was to make me aware that Miriam was playing away I couldn't say; my mum was Plaistow born and bred and wouldn't know a fallow field from a fallow deer and I often wondered which of my 'uncles' had told her that.It didn't look like those first six months after my return from Germany, when I had enjoyed a proper married life with Miriam, were ever going to be repeated, so I made the best of what I had. Miriam and I got along OK in most other matters, we shopped together,.