We come over on the "Lune" together. Friends we was, that's all, jus' friends. She hain't as pretty as some a'these locals, but a good woman, a widow....Damn shame. Her man and my brother, they was friends, too, an' both of 'em died on the ship." Undt?" Martz used the lamp to light his pipe and puffed contentedly, linking his hands across his belly."Don' know where she is. I promised 'er, well, promised that I'd find 'er when I was free, free t'marry." You ask her to marry vith you?" No, not. ‘I thought I could serenade you this evening. You know, as it’s your birthday and all.’ ‘No way.’ I gazed at him in mock horror, recalling the agony that was listening to Paul and Drew’s band all those years ago. ‘Please, please, please tell me you’re kidding?’ He pretended to look offended. ‘What? You mean I can’t sing to you? You don’t want to hear the sweet sound of my instrument? The gentle strumming of my magic fingers?’ ‘Magic fingers?’ I repeated, sniggering. ‘You’ve got magic fingers?’. He paired them off, mostly girls with girls and boys with boys, but Vixen ended up with an acne-scarred young man with pale blonde hair and a big nose.She smiled at him and introduced herself. He said his name and sniffed, looking down shyly. They got to work. After thirty minutes or so, the students sat in a circle and held up what they had done for comments and criticism.The boy who had been drawing Vixen had only sketched in her hairline and carefully delineated her left eye, eyebrow and one. The five of us were tight, though Lex rarely ever got to spend time with us outside of practice and school. Joey, Brad and I had spent a few nights at his house separately, but his mom was a bit stuck up. Brad’s parents were upper middle class and were ‘intellectuals’ where Joey and I were just lower middle class. John’s mom made good money too which explained why John lived on Brad’s street where I lived on Joey’s.I say it that way as Joey’s parents had lived on our street since before he was.