He screamed like a six-year-old girl.“I don’t think he liked that buddy,” I remarked to our prisoner. “Now, tell me what you know before I mak... you a eunuch.”“The fuck you will, you candy ass. The Baron will,” before he could finish, an arrow appeared in his left temple. Killing him instantly, I tried to sense whomever it was like I had before. I got a life heading away briefly before they left the range of my power.“I can’t feel anyone anymore. Someone passed the range of my power, heading. Lesa looked at him and said, "I ... found it." Her remark evoked laughter from everyone, including Jake. She returned the cartridge to the steel box and put it back into the crate.There were two antique weapons remaining in the crate."Two of John Moses Browning's greatest inventions," Budzinski said reverently.Lesa pointed at her Model 1897 Winchester pump shotgun and said, "Each of the six twelve-gauge combat rounds that this piece holds is typically loaded with fifteen thirty-caliber lead. .." Two months?" Ah, I've started to think in Aina time. Did you notice Earth and Aina are almost in perfect synch right now?"Jennifer pushed a button on her watch. "Yeah, I've noticed." There will be two leap-days this year; five more days until 1450. I kind of like it, starting the year at the summer solstice... But starting off with a day zero! That'll feel weird..." Ah, we might die that day, Lynda." Nope! I was speaking with Dr. Ker. The Aina school children took an expedition up north,. Sultry's life played itself out in fast forward. When anything noteworthy happened, it slowed down. There were parts she didn't remember ... parts she wished she didn't remember ... it was awful ... it was sad ... it got worse when she was 12 and the neighbor ... Oh My God ... he wasn't a boy. It was his father ... John ... she had blocked it ... she wasn't a voluntary participant in the nightmare of her life after 12. The bastard had SOLD her to his friends and enjoyed slapping her around.