Is this your home?" No. This hut belongs to Pomona and her connues." Who are they?" The guards," Nuala explained. "Now they are confined in the captir...m, awaiting their trial that will be held tomorrow." Why are they confined in the captirem?" Our gracious chief had ordered them to patrol the grounds. On the contrary, they returned home for having fun last night and thereby left the entire island unguarded. Moreover, they were into the potion-bartering with Shima of which our chief knew. Saturdays and Sundays were no different. Most weekends I would be seated at a table by seven am. At that time, I could find a ten, or fifteen-dollar table, and would be grandfathered in, at that price, when they started to raise the minimums later in the day.One particular Sunday, I arrived at my usual early time, and found an empty ten-dollar table, at the back of the room, with one of my favorite dealers. I sat down and gave the dealer my usual three hundred dollar buy in. He gave me an. ‘No,’ I said, shaking my head. ‘I would have remembered you. You’re not the kind of person one forgets easily.’ She looked at me, her face serious, her eyes smiling. I cursed myself quietly for being so indiscreet. Before I got married, I fooled around with a couple of women, nothing serious, but I still thought about them sometimes. Brenda would certainly be a kind of a woman I would want to mess around with. Providing neither of us was married. I knew Mike wouldn’t stand for it, and although. I was both relieved and dismayed to find nobody was home. The cave was surprisingly light and airy inside as if ambient light was somehow being reflected off the cave’s rocky walls, but even then the cave seemed to be far better lit than could be accounted for by the natural light coming through the cave’s entrance. That phenomenon alone would have made for an interesting scientific study and I wished that circumstances were different so Michael could come and do a proper scientific.