I looked around and her admin and several employees from her office were there as well. There were flowers everywhere. I was just looking through them...when I noticed one from a Jim Flowers. It said get well soon, you owe me another one of those fantastic dinner dates with benefits. With Love, Jim.She moaned as she started to come around. The doctor and nurse were there. They asked us to step out while the checked her over. I watched from the door. In about 2 hours, she was completely awake .... I'll..." Bettina was interrupted by her close cropped hairregaining its full length as it fell across her shoulders almost to herwaist."Shit," she said. "Do you have any idea what a pain it is to take careof hair this long?" "No idea," the little man said. "But your intent to further youreducation, while noble, will have to be delayed." Why?" Bettina asked, worried and distracted by the disappearance of hershirt."I am afraid that you have set a rather more stringent time frame thanyour first. Both were trailing large backpacks. Kiana also had three watches in her hand which she packed away. The two groups at the top of Blue Spirit spent a few minutes hugging each other."Welcome home Kiana!" said Leon at last, as he finished giving her an affectionate hug. "You too Kahoku! Is everything okay?"Kahoku smiled warmly. "For us, yes! Hiapo and his three wives are also well. They are all in the well by the blue ring. Lois and Tal said to tell you how much they are looking forward to hugging. Two championships in twenty years, not bad, I thought. Red Creek is a typical small southern town. The cotton gin shut down years ago and the cotton mill has been gone for over fifteen years. The high school is still there, two banks, four lawyers and a small, down in the mouth strip mall, line the highway passing through town. If it’s Walmart you want that’s going to be eight miles up the road just before you get to Peaty. Only a small portion of the residence of Red Creek actually work.