She was tall, also like Janet, compared to most women. She was alluring since she was so much like my Janet. I had to break the spell for my sake. "Ar...se and be seated. We will talk." All five rose and sat down on chairs and then the floor when we had no seating for all of them."First, as you are all aware, Calveen and I are establishing a new city south of here with people from Sin Loos, the Oaks, and the Jacks. All three cities have different customs and our new city will have different. Hadn't he always been taught that on the battlefield "Luck favors the prepared"? In his former line of work wasn't any place a battlefield?How could he have let it all happen to the people he loved and was entrusted to protect? They trusted him, and he let them down. It had cost them their lives as he fled into the night. That thought still bothered him to this day.Well this time he would do a better job and nothing would ever harm Melina's son. If he were able to put him back on the throne. As usual he had walked into the house quite unexpectedly and he wanted Jimmy to go fishing with him in North Creek which was about twenty minutes of fast walking on one of the trails at the back of Jimmy's house. North Creek was a slow moving stream that could be called a river since at some places it was a couple of hundred feet wide. But at other places it was very narrow and moving fast, it winded northward to finally empty in Ross River. There were plenty of fish in the small river,. Remember I was only ten years old when Andrea and I collected this stuff. I don't think I burned more than a half box. Some that I burned was your old school papers and yearbooks. Let's go treasure hunting."The owners of the former Bickford house were extremely nice and very helpful. They moved their bed so that I could set up the stepladder. Mom said she would help the lady vacuum and polish as there was a cloud of dirt and dust that came down as I moved the boxes to the opening and handed.