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"Schedule?"

"Yes Which ones will help with the fort household and which ones will have children"

"Really?"

"Yes Every woman that can have a child will need to produce a future citizen of the fort We s ave hiood old Auys will kinda divide us up, tell us what to do, take over the running of the fort?"

"Yes Your people won’t have to worry about it You’ll have an experienced Senator to govern and a trainedhis head to one side, Bill took a deep breath, eyeing the throng of decaying dead outside the walls

"What do you think, Bill?"

Bill took a deep breath and in his deep Texan drawl, that he deliberately twanged out, answered, "Born, raised, and lived as a Texan, sir Aiood to ain And if you don’t see it that way, yer fucked This is Texas We don’t take kindly to being told what to do"

The Major General blinked at him "I don’t understand"

"This is Texas, sir We aiovernment, your military, they don’t exist any Find our oay"

"You’re saying the people at the fort won’t welco they will tell you to fuck off"

The man’s eyebrows lifted in surprise

"Think I’m done now," Bill said firmly

The Major General slowly nodded and motioned to a soldier to lead Bill back into the et out of the view of all the zo either

People were eating breakfast and heading off to their work assignments

The heat was off and the cold made him shiver It felt more like a prison than a home He didn’t kno the people hadin such a sterile and cold environ down to breakfast, and headed over to her

"Well?" She flipped her long dark hair over one shoulder "What was the big deal with that guy wanting to talk to you?"

"He wanted to talkon outside" He slid onto the chair next to her and shook his head

"What is going on outside?" Jenni poked at her congealing oatawddarimaced

"Only difference, Mexicans didn’t eat the people in the Alamo," Bill muttered

Jenni leaned her head on his beefy shoulder "Da ourselves into trouble"

"Yeah, tell me about it This placeand hard He slid his ared her to his side "It’ll be okay, Jenni We always figure soure a way out of this"