“Will you look at that?” Corec said, coming up behind her and dropping an arm around her shoulders. “If we’re attacked again, we have a choice...of a spear wall or an entire company of crossbowmen. Hell, we could split them up and do both.”She laughed. Apparently he’d been thinking along the same lines. “Are we going to leave now?”“I don’t know what those soldiers are going to want to do. If I get a vote, I think tomorrow’s soon enough to head back to Jol’s Brook—or Elmsford, or wherever they’ll. " She saw my expression and rolled on. "I want a guy like Dad, not some baggy-pants'ed bozo flashin' gang signs." Don't egg 'er on, Stoney," Jo said, "Unless you want to hear one of a series of presentations entitled 'Keshia's Observations On Positive Role Models'."Key's face twisted in feigned horror. "Seriously? Was I that bad?"Jo laughed. "No, you were not! You were memorable, though." Stoney, just so you aren't misled by my erstwhile room-mate, she and I had some long, serious talks about. Nobody in 49 did because it was my grandfather’s business. But I still needed two more things: a way to get Abril to blame herself, and a sure-fire story to get her to run to me.That was when a bank closed.It is funny how things turn out sometimes. Suddenly I was served what I needed on a golden platter, purely because I was always thinking of this problem and was ready when the pieces fell into place. There is a lesson there.Monday June 2, 2008Walking Her GoldOn Monday morning June 2nd Abril. Before leaving I cast another quick glance around the room. There it was! A door that almost blended into the wall next to the cupboard door. I climbed back down and carefully went over to the door. It wasn’t on the alarm system so obviously wasn’t an outside door. Slowly I opened it up carefully and found I was looking at an office complete with a desk, some chairs and a computer. I took a quick mental note of its size seeing the small almost hidden camera above the door viewing all of.