If I remember right, I saw an old pickup up there in a little shed out in a pasture not long ago, when I was passing by. You know I never miss one of ...he older ones like that.”“I was gonna go out there right after school today, Dad. I’ll run on up the mountain a ways and check it out. If its still there me and you could bring it back here and get Little Tom to come over, then spring it on him.”“Now that sounds like a fun plan, you check it out and we’ll do that if we can get our hands on. Surprisingly, Tarien appeared relieved. When Smythe asked him why, he answered, “Their force is smaller than ours, and they would not dare attack us among the trees, especially in smaller numbers. Historically, we have bloodied them too many times for them not to remember this. We do not enter their mountains, and they do not enter our forests. It has always been the way.”“Except that the way has now changed,” Andil corrected, fixing Tarien with a level look. “The Dwarves are walking the. But I say this does not stop me from respecting the beliefs of others, and that I am happy to have ceremony in church if this is what she wants.It seems that we must choose a church and speak to the proprietor, the leader, and we go to do this in a place that is nearby. He takes us to an office and we sit down and he asks us many things about ourselves. I think he asks more than is right, but Linda does not object and I accept.To my great surprise, when he learns that we live together in the. "Don't be stupid. It's just that the girl loves the hell out of you, and you're kind of the only conscious male in the family right now. She's pretty attached to her dad, you know. I have the feeling that she's more comfortable with letting her hair down in front of you than doing it in front of her mom." Did she tell you that?" No, no. It's just a feeling, you know? She's more relaxed around you than anyone else, I think."Will pondered Claire's observation for a while, watching the bare.