I smiled in the right places and said nothing. His friends grew impatient, he found little excuse to stay and so he returned to them, although he almo...t forgot the ball. On his return his friends, in the way the British do, teased and taunted him. I guess they assumed that I couldn’t hear them. They played on and I watched. Every few minutes his eyes would drift over to me, he tried to hide it, but it only served to telegraph his stolen glances. It wasn’t long before I became restless. I sipped. I flashed Dad to give him a heads up on everything the family was planning on doing. He said they had no problem keeping Eric and Olivia until we got our RVs set up, making sure we understood they had no problem keeping them longer if needed.Little did he know it would probably be some time before the RVs even got used.Charlene hooked us up with an electrician that we met on-site just before 3:00PM.He managed to get our three 50-amp outlets fastened to a pole near where we were planned on. Unlike mom, I couldn't 'become' a river, as she could. Unlike dad, I couldn't 'become' the rock. Those kinds of transformative magics were limited to Arbor, or other mostly hypothetical places that offered the same sort of supporting underlayer of 'magic' that Arbor had. So I ran and I thought and I let developed and developing senses 'taste' the Light, the Dream Stuff — everything they could.When the morning light began to grow enough to see the trees on the other side of the lake, I ran to. He had me sign all the name changeinformation as well as the gender change info. Then I was handed acredit chip that showed 5000 credits. While this wasn't a large amount,it was enough to get me a good start. I also received my travelingpapers so that I could travel anywhere.He looked at my writing on the electronic paperwork and shook his head. "We need to change your handwriting to a more feminine style." He heldthe pad up against my cheek and pressed a few buttons. The pad blinkeda few.