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filling and warm and he finished off his bowl quickly.
    Lara had sat in one of the chairs
near the couch and had barely eaten two spoons before her stomach began
rebelling and threatening to bring it back up. Shoving the spoon back in the
bowl, she took the empty bowl from Viper and handed him her full bowl.
    “Why aren’t you eating?” Viper
asked with concern.
    “I’m too wound up to eat. I’m not
sure my stomach can handle it right now. You eat it. You need the nutrition in
order to heal.” Lara said as she stood up and swayed slightly before catching
herself.
    Lara didn’t wait for Viper’s
response and headed into the kitchen with Viper’s empty bowl. She rinsed it
out, before leaving it in the sink. Reaching into the cabinet above the sink,
Lara pulled out a bottle of antibiotics and a bottle of pain reliever/fever
reducer.
    Shaking out the correct dosages and
adding a couple of extra pain relievers, Lara downed them at one time with a
glass of water. Closing her eyes against the pain in her shoulder, Lara took a
deep breath and tried to concentrate on her plan.
    “What is… you are on fire! What is
wrong with you?” Viper asked, coming up behind Lara and laying a hand on her
arm. Feeling the heat of her arm, Viper moved his hand to her head to verify
that her temperature was really that high.
    “I’m fine! Just a little overheated
from getting here.” Lara said, jerking away from Viper and moving to the
fireplace.
    “You’re lying to me! I can hear it
in your voice. Tell me what is wrong?” Viper asked again, following her blurry
image over to the fireplace, thankful the place was sparsely furnished.
    “We don’t have time for this. I
don’t have time for this. We need to get ready for them.” Lara said, kneeling
down at the hearth of the fireplace.
    Even without his vision, Viper
could tell that she had a hidden place beneath the floor when she lifted up a
small door and disappeared inside.
    He moved to the other side of the
room where she had been, hoping to see where she had gone. The gaping black
hole in the floor told him that the hole was pretty deep, and he could smell
the packed earth inside. He moved back in surprise when Lara started putting
weapon after weapon onto the floor around the opening.
    When there was barely enough room
around the edge of the opening for her to crawl out, Lara finally climbed back
out of the hole and started grabbing up the rifles and handguns.
    Viper stood back, out of the way,
as Lara moved the furniture around the room, placing the tables next to the
only two windows in the small, one-room cabin.
    “How long until they get here?”
Viper asked as Lara started loading down the tables with weapons and
ammunition.  
    “I think we have maybe an hour.”
Lara said, grabbing her throwing knives and inserting them into their sheath
before strapping them to her chest.
    “While I get us ready, why don’t
you tell me about yourself? I’m thinking if we can fight together, then I
should at least know a little about the man I’m fighting with right?” Lara
asked, hoping that she would learn something that would tell her she had made
the right choice in saving him.
    Viper heard what she didn’t say,
and she was right. If she was good enough to possibly die for him or with him,
then she had a right to know the truth. Maybe if he explained it to her, it
would jog her memory. At least, he hoped it would. If not, he was getting ready
to make a huge mistake. One he wasn’t sure could be fixed.

 
    Chapter
Five
    Viper sighed heavily, then sat in a
chair near where Lara was pulling bullets out of a box and putting them into
clips for the weapons.
    “I am one of three brothers. The oldest
is Dread, and the youngest is Drago. Does the name Kinara mean anything to
you?” Dread asked suddenly, catching Lara off guard.
    Lara stopped for a moment, running
the name through her head. She knew it. Or at least, she thought she heard it
before, but couldn’t remember where.