“It pleases me indeed you have come, Masters. Have you changed your view on Wurgus?”Roy sighed openly. “I have not changed my view on Wurgus, bu... frankly I don’t know enough about your kind to form a real opinion one way or the other. I still think your kind paid more than any other to defeat the Y’All. It all happened long before my time and in the case of you scarifying your sun, I think that happened even before there was a Union.”There was no emotional response Roy could recognize or. It was a pain, but it was better than it had been.The next Monday, the Metro Times carried an even bigger story about our game, even though we had lost. I was embarrassed to read that I was being touted as "the defensive specialist who is also a scoring threat", after my assist in the first half.I didn't want all the attention I was starting to get. Hell, I was only fifteen years old. I wanted to just go out and have fun playing the game.By the end of October, the Rockton game was our only. From what he could tell, O'Malley's demand for added security had been heeded by his underlings. The Ghost's preliminary examination of his target about an hour earlier had shown the three guards in the office with O'Malley. This actually played to The Ghost's advantage, since it made it likely that the guards would get in each other's way in the relatively small room. This was obviously something that O'Malley had never considered.The Ghost had also seen the two guards on the roof. These two. They had no idea that I was really a boy and I wasn't about to tell them.Susan informed us of a birthday party and was handing out invitations.Boys were not allowed. Cool - the invitation was all pink and feminineand I felt really lucky to be invited to one of the more popular girls'birthday party. What to wear?It turned out this was a sleepover party and I was all excited aboutthat. Mother didn't seem too apprehensive and told me we'd have to getsome new pajamas for this event. I asked why and.