The light breeze made my dress blow around and I hadremoved my stockings and high heels, which made working easier. It wasgreat and I loved it. I real...y felt like a girl, perhaps a bit naughty,cleaning up a mess she had made.When I had finished, I knocked on the Allen's door and told them I wasdone. Mr. Allen told me he wanted to check my work and to follow him."Let's just see how you did," Mr. Allen said.We walked around the front yard and then the back, finding no trace oftoilet paper."What. The few Union soldiers fighting a delaying action on the road were easily brushed aside and our officer was undecided to commit us to the fray because he was uncertain how many other Rebel fighters were headed in our direction. After a short time, it became abundantly clear that the cavalry unit was the only one thrusting into the fast retreating Union lines and we were now cut off from our main forces with a sizable rebel unit between us and our commanders.The Captain addressed us in a low. Her happily married paramour at that.“Guys, your mother and I would like you to know that we have accepted an offer from Stan and Kelly, to stay with them permanently, even after the lockdown. We’re going to have our stuff moved, a lot of it, anyway, up here, and we’re going to hand over the house to you quite legally, so that you have a permanent residence. We don’t want you to be homeless, after all, and we don’t wish to impose you on them or vice versa.“Stan and Kelly and your mother and I. She stuffed her poncho liner into her ruck, and grabbed the rest of her gear. She was disoriented a moment, then realized the firing came from inside the arena. She walked over to the roll up doors, and peered outside. Nobody on the loading dock, but there was a gunner in each of the Hum-Vees. She went back to where she'd been sleeping, and kicked the other soldier from her company on the bottom of his boots to wake him up. He only groaned and rolled over on the stack of empty cardboard boxes..