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Show Anting Alone Page 3Q2 Chapter Sixteen "I come to Fort Carson to fetch you from the clutch of that humanist. Where is he at? Mama Mae Bell insisted that I got to talk to him." Shannon saw red. "Why do you got to talk to him if you're fetching me? Why don't you talk to me? What am I? His cattle?" Polly would of been proud to hear that. Shannon even made her voice go like Polly's And it worked. Spikey kind of backed off. Polly used to spank Spikey when he was naughty when they was kids all together, and he always was scared of her and also had a crush on her at the same time, of course. Shannon was going to have to learn to be strong like her big sister. Cause she was on her own now, probably. Mean old Sammy spent the night someplace else last night, for the first time since they started pretending like they was married together, the two of them - and Shannon had a wild notion where. "Your yellow ribbon's kinda cute," Shannon said, in a mean hoity-toity sarcastic TV-actress kind of voice, even though she really liked her Spikey and had been missing him worse than all getout. "Lemmee see the rest of your insignias. See mine? I got the famous Iron Horse Division insignias, cause I'm in America's real armed forces. Course, I guess that just cause you mustered out of the gy-renes soon as the Eyeranians turned you loose, |