I know how you feel about what you did, but you have to see it was my actions that put you into that situation. You would never hurt anyone! Never! Yo... were so tired and your mind was so fatigued that when you saw me betraying you, you just snapped. That was all my fault and mine alone! That situation will never happen again! Never!"Carmine was shaking his head but he did turn and look at me again. His eyes were filled with tears that he refused to shed. I felt a need to go to him and take him. There was no Mayor, Sheriff or any other formal form of government. There was, however, the town meeting for important decisions. Therefore, when the family came down to breakfast the next morning, a crowd of town's folk met them.Jean and Maeve were in the lead as the family descended the stairs. Jean spotted the group and noticed that all of the men were armed, and he also noticed that they, to a person were acting very nervous. Nervous people are far more dangerous than professionals.Without. "Yes," I say matter-of-factly, "and they're more professional than yourrunners." That's what I think too!" she agrees excitedly. "I need a tie." You can use my school tie," I offer. "I'll get it."I dig through my closet to find a few white shirts but no tie. I thinkfor a moment. Where's my tie? Fucking Caleb still has it. Asshole!Dammit. I'll have to find a tie for school on Monday. Wait a second!Pants! My school pants. Caleb has my school pants. I've only got the onepair. Shit! Fucking Caleb!. Then, after some wheeling and dealing, making sure that Lucinda would be willing to ‘take care of’ the other three guys, Sly, Tony and Josh, the five of them decided they would all indeed stick together. It was obvious they all knew each other and were hoping to sweet talk Ibera to give them some special tools that weren’t originally part of the standard toolkit.From the beginning, they’d mimicked Blane and had all been fairly nice to Ibera.The five of them were already conspiring to find.