“She didn’t tell me that, but I would understand why she didn’t! Wow, that’s rough – if you can’t trust your own dad, who can you trust?�... I said, disgusted at this bald-faced lie he just told me.“What about her mother, she’s not said a word about her to either me or my wife?” I added.Jeff chuckled, “After that no-good sonofabitch left town, I stepped in and her mother and I became a couple.”It was with every fiber of my being that I didn’t reach across the table and punch Jeff’s lights out,. In my lust for vengeance on Duke Gallchobhar, I didn’t even considered that we would get caught. I didn’t think there would be a warning. Not after twenty years. But Queen Sidhe maintained her vigil. Duke Gallchobhar was dead, but that didn’t bring my father back to life. It didn’t restore our lands to us. It didn’t end my banishment.It just lead to my death. I was alive. I was even happy for those brief hours with Sven. Maybe we did some good, but I didn’t care about freeing those humans. I. It was the first time I'd ever disobeyed my parents on such a grand scale. I couldn't really put into words my feelings about leaving home that early spring morning. On one hand my heart was heavy with the thought of hurting my parents. On the other, my brain was convinced I was doing the right thing.I decided on joining Lee's Army in Virginia based on a story I'd read about him in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. Lee was portrayed as a man of honor and the best general in the service of the. I just couldn’t mind that it would be very well used.I paid for my beer band and got my first cupful and wandered around the bonfire. I’d forgotten my blanket so went back to the car to get it and found a nice place to settle where I could see the ocean.A woman who looked somewhat older than me walked slowly, looking around. She spied me sitting by myself and came over, “May I join you?” I nodded and she sat down. “Have you been to these before? This is my first one.”“Not at this place but I.