title: Sentinel Dawn: Journey Into Midnight
author:  L.G. Ransom 
description: L.G. Ransom was born in Miami, Florida but grew up living in various countries around the world. Several years ago, she began molding the different cultures and customs shed been exposed to into worlds and clashing societies galaxies away. Shes a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a photographer, a scout leader, and lives in the suburbs of Washington DC with her husband, two children, and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
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  Fools and Burning Houses
  
  
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  # Fools and Burning Houses
  
  
  ### A Midnight Sentinel Adventure By Jens H. Altmann
  
  
  Copyright Jens H. Altmann
  
  
  E-Mail: Jens.Altmann@excite.de
  
  
  Fools and Burning Houses
  
  
  A Midnight Sentinel Adventure
  
  
  By Jens H. Altmann (and Akiko Ando)
  
  
  
  
  
  “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for
  
  
  happiness, the good he seeks.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Mary Woolstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Midnight Sentinel barely managed to duck from the glass sphere
  
  
  that hurled toward him. Instead, it crashed into the wall behind him,
  
  
  splattering it with a liquid that caught fire instantaneously.
  
  
  The Sentinel used the momentum of his move to roll towards the
  
  
  action. He hoped he moved fast enough to offer a less tempting target
  
  
  for Flashfire's throwing skills.
  
  
  Then again, Flashfire was otherwise occupied.
  
  
  The Avenger seemed to co