Unfortunately for her, the good mood lasted only until she saw the Record-Herald.She had halfway expected something like the screaming headline across...the top of the page: "SNAKE SUIT COULD COST LOCAL TAXPAYERS MILLIONS". In spite of the wonderful extended weekend she'd spent with John, she still knew that she wasn't the most popular person in Spearfish Lake, and a story like that wouldn't help matters much. Still, after a weekend like that, there were new reserves within her to continue the. To my credit, I only got lost once in all the turns back out to the street where I was parked. I held the door for her as she demurely slid into the front seat, her coy smile expressing her appreciation at being treated like a lady.We made small talk all the way to the harbor, both of us nervous about what the opinion of the person next to us would be tomorrow morning, neither wanting to get into a discussion of anything serious until we'd had a chance to find out a little more about our date. She noticed that on one side the lamp was indented with a shape that looked somewhat like an isosceles triangle, pointing down, with circles on it’s two identical sides. Clara could not resist the temptation. She very gently began to rub the side of the lamp. Clara thought she must’ve been seeing things when the lamp’s color seemed to lighten. She moved out of the sunlight, back into the shadows, and sure enough, the lamp was glowing dimly. Clara also became aware of a faint high-pitched. The builders were naturally protective of their creation and all volunteered to help build a small dock. The other half of our crew were fishermen that only recently started using our small sailboats. The fishermen, while happy to experience the new ship, expected to return to their trade after today and none of them volunteered to assist with a new dock."I'll have a word with Tharin and ask him to release half of his work crews from wall building and assign them to dock building," I lamented,.