Paul would have come in the front door. ‘Paul?’ she called out. She had planned to remain silent, but now she was afraid that someone else had com... into the house. ‘Paul? Is that you?’ There was no answer. Instead someone touched her. It was a very soft touch, but someone definitely touched her. Hands slid along the inside of her legs. They stroked her breasts and lightly tweaked her nipples. They ran a spiral path between the lights across her tummy, around to her back, and then to the front. To say she's fallen head over heels for him in an understatement. She seems to live and breathe for this guy.I've never seen her fall this hard for someone. She's dated a few guys since I’ve known her, but she's always been pretty independent. But the way she talks about Tyler, she needs him.I've talked to Tyler a few times, he seems decent enough, a little full of himself but whatever. Maude's a pretty girl, I would have dated her myself, but could never get myself to ask her out.Anyway, today. I may be short, but I’m still competent enough to take care of myself. OK, there are things I’m going to have to learn how to do at this size, so what? At least dressed as an adult with my hair growing out and the start of a beard I should be treated as an adult. ‘I could call Suzanne and have her meet me someplace, but then what? I can’t show up anywhere near the Joyce Company for fear of being recognized and subjected to questions at least by the police. In England I’m in trouble because. ’ I believe that they mean to dig in there ... right along the outskirts of Hermiston, the only sizable city in eastern Oregon.“The use of the Undead Guard as shock troops has helped, not to mention the use of Havenite sympathizers behind enemy lines and the sheer professionalism, discipline, cohesion, and morale of the Army of Western Oregon. It doesn’t hurt that as soon as we resurrect their troops, we send them back at their former comrades with a vengeance. Some might call them cannon.