Even in the late evening darkness, she was clearly showing the guilt and pain of what she had undertaken on a long day of wholesale killing of the Dragon army. Bill understood completely, but refused to take much of the blame for how it had turned out. He had been at the table when Kirk had written his request to the leader of Bedford County. The note included a quick list of what Bill and Kirk knew about the Dragons and their plans, with a polite request for Tam to slow the Dragons down as much as possible without endangering her own people. Bill held a strong notion that she would take the request as far as she could, but even he was surprised by the damage she had done. The Dragon leader, Gary Tucker Jr., had possessed only a few brief moments in which he had any chance to fight back during the long crossing of Bedford County. Tam had taken the landscape itself and used it to hammer the Dragon army to pieces.Bill gave Tam a final hug with his sincere thanks and the always-open invitation to visit Teeny Town.
