"Oh, come on, baby," she said. "It's obvious." Not to everybody, little one," I said. "Matter of fact, not to MOST people. You pick up on things a lot...faster than normal people."It was true. I saw more and more of it each day. Sometimes it scared me. I was not without experience in working around some powerful minds in my past, but here I was married to one who was fourteen, and with every passing day I saw more of what she was.She smiled, her green eyes soft and happy. Any misapprehension I. The two Hawaiian girls were obviously excited and had brushed their hair and put a little makeup on. They didn't use a lot of makeup, but they must have thought they needed it. I made a pass through the six little ones to kiss and tickle each one. I did the same with the moms and told the two sets of parents to buckle up in preparation to land.You would have thought the trailer park had moved out to the airpark when we pulled in front of the operations building at about seven in the morning. I. Even still, she put her arms around it and hoisted up. Much to her surprise, it leapt from the ground and returned into the canopy while the trolley dropped from the side of the treehouse.She looked up at me somewhat confused. I returned the look and made a gesture indicating she should hurry. Not that she could know but the counterweight would fall again if the hook wasn’t attached or someone didn’t board the trolley.Seeming to understand my gaze she stepped cautiously onto the small platform. A couple of times now, she’d seemed to notice that he’d said things which might be interpreted as very gentle challenges – or they might not have been. Whatever they’d been, she’d enjoyed them. She was the sort of girl who was used to doing what she wanted in many ways and always had been. She thought about him in that regard and she saw that there hadn’t been any sort of veiled judgement in the things that he’d said. She didn’t understand it completely, but she liked it in him for some odd.