And it wasn't a bad plan either. You almost caught us up there." Yeah," Chin said, "and I almost didn't lose two hundred of my men to those portable a...ti-tank lasers you have. You little sneaking fucks are unnatural, you know that?" It's what we do best," Lon agreed.As Chin, Lon, and Brian drank at one table, their men drank with their counterparts at others. Captains and lieutenants of the armored cav shared spaces with the corporals and the privates that had massacred them out in the. . the Sheriff made them move.I guess what I'm trying to say is, my home town wasn't all that moral, but it was a great place to raise kids.Grace went up stairs to 'cheer Sylvia up' ... gossip ... and I went to the playroom in the basement to visit Ricky and Mike.Ricky had 5 big boxes of American Bricks and we built all kinds of houses and forts with them. Then we'd shoot at them with marbles to see who's things lasted the longest. Mine always did.There's something going on here ... I'm just. .,you know."Sally did not want to corrupt Sarah's memories of the tea parties with howthey ended. It should forever stay a sweet innocent memory, when those twowere so much closer to being perfect than they are now."Anyway, James, enough about the past. It is so great to reconnect withyou. Tell me more about Cara. "Sarah was not ready to come back to the present. "What did you call meduring those tea parties?"Sally was not going to rehashthat topic, and she lied by saying, "James,of course.. Steve had decided to spend at least a month at home,resting and recharging. He needed some time away fromthe exciting but stressful mode he had been in foryears. Then he would decide what to do next. He spent the day wandering around the small town,refreshing memories and visiting with people whorecognized him. One of those was Becky who he haddated for six fuck-filled months before he headed outon his journey. She was working in a store and calledto him. As they chatted he noticed the.