“That’s never going to happen, I won’t allow it.”  Dana confirmed.  “Besides, Bette and her army would destroy our entire camp if anything happened to you.  I’m too young and hot to be obliterated.  There are so many things that I want do and try out.”

“Like what?”  Tina was curios, smiling for the first time since she left Bette and Angie.

“Like a threesome” Dana said with a wink.

“Dana Fairbanks, you little hoochie” Tina laughed at her friend.

“I got you to smile, didn’t I?”  Dana felt happy that Tina was in a more positive frame of mind, a dirty one at that “Nothing like sex to brighten your day.”

Day of the Council meeting

“Christina Kennard, step forward” Franklin spoke on behalf of the council. 

Tina did as she was told and stepped into a box at the center of the council chamber facing her superiors with Queen Helena center of the group.  She said a silent prayer for strength to say what she had to say, which was nothing short of the truth, and for the safety and well being of her family.  Whatever the council decides on this day she will walk out having represented who she is and that nothing they could decide or sentence can change that.

“You have been summoned to appear before the council to give a full account of your activities during your mission.”  Franklin looked to the other council members who nodded their acknowledgement and for him to proceed.  “It has come to our knowledge that Queen Bette has the power of the Milagrosos, can you please explain how this came to be.”

“I do not know how Queen Bette learned our technique but I suppose it was the same way that I learned their ways” Tina emphasized.  Even though a treaty was in the process of being drafted, Bette had learned their secrets before hand.  This, apparently, did not sit well with some members of the council.  “I was assigned a mission by Queen Helena.  I accepted, not that I had a choice, and I my memory as a Milagroso was temporarily darkened by a spell.  I learned Muerte Segurans ways and Bette learned ours, but not by any sort of exchange with me.”