He was most of the way through the cutting when he felt a shudder, then an immediate cracking sound, followed by a pause as if the tree was thinking a...out its next move. John jerked the chainsaw out of the tree, switched off and dropped it, and ran as fast as his moccasins would let him.“Down!” he commanded Cramona, then crouched down behind a smaller tree to present as small a target as possible for any splinters.There came another, louder, crack, and the whole tree started to lean; thankfully. If only she could have gotten even one of them to help her trick Chad into stepping out on Reina. But she’d had no luck. The few whose names she’d been able to find out had no interest in doing anything to screw Chad over. While one said she was devastated when Chad had been done with her, she said he had been very kind and fair about it. He’d also given her a very generous severance package that had included a clause that she would not attempt future contact.So, that’s when Sydney decided to. "My real concern is that should one certain woman learn this one still lives in any way, this part of the world would be laid to waste as she hunted him down."Silor was perplexed for a moment, trying to recall any other time than the one he knew of that Mistemoore may have visited his home village. "I can only think of one time he appeared and did a body snatch B'rill. That was the day Tama cooked Thornbreak for attempting to kidnap her and kill her mother, are you saying he raised Thornbreak. . we don't have slavery, for one." That I think I knew." Tanyee paused to wash her other leg, Amanda doing her best not to look. Nevertheless, she stole furtive glances out of the corner of her eyes. Tanyee's gaze continually drifted to Amanda as well, watching as the girl's hands slid over glistening skin. "I remember someone mentioning that only Narlass really had it, at least in this way."Amanda wanted to retort that her world had had the sense to get rid of slavery, but she knew that her.