In Patience To Abide Bk 2 Chap 1

BOOK TWO

IN HEAVY HARNESS

CHAPTER 1

Mike stood at the window overlooking the Keldara fields, trying not to shake his head at the mess the visitors had created. He'd never realized there were that many helicopters in Georgia. They'd landed higgledy-piggledy all over his fucking farm. Couple of the barley fields were wrecked. The Mothers were going to be that pissed. Dragon and Valkyrie were down there now with the crews setting up a plan to move them all to better positions. But they were going to have to be careful. They didn't need another disaster like the one at the North Pass.

The reason he was standing there at parade rest, though, wasn't to watch the cluster fuck down on his farm. It was a very affected pose and for a very specific reason. The people slowly filing into the caravanserai's dining room, the only room big enough to hold the meeting, included some very important personages. Whether they were still important was the real question. Arguably, the answer was yes. But right now they were just refugees. What they might be later was something different. And he needed to make that clear as day. Which was why Anastasia was greeting everyone and getting them seated and Mike was watching Chief D'Allaird scream at some Georgian pilot.