"You ... you mean I'm to be your niece?" she stuttered."That's right," he answered still smiling, "and I'm your Uncle Steven."She stared at him again ...nd then a conspiratorial grin slowly spread across her face."You fox," she said. "You scheming, old fox!"He smiled delightedly at her. "I'd better tell you what happened," he said. "This Australian you ran off with was twenty-three and you fell in love with him after you met him at the youth club. He told you he was seventeen. He persuaded you to. He quickly inserted several more freezing me and making me breathe heavy, squirm and moan. I tried to push them out but he used his fingers to push them back in. I pulled on the cuffs holding my wrists trying to get free to get the cold out of me. I watched as Alex smiled seeing me strain and squirm. “Please Alex, please it is so cold. Please take them out,” I begged. “I will warm you, but only if you behave. You know the rules, now ask me properly,” he said stern, but caring. I thought. ‘Yes,’ she said slowly, ‘pointers when you get back.’ To Lisbeth, she said, ‘Don’t work him too hard up there.’ That morning, we escaped the standard Big Sur fog bank and warmed quickly on the steep trail. The pack was heavy with beer and extra water. The needed grassy hillside materialized around fifteen hundred feet and we found a hollow with a view and some privacy. I unfolded the blanket and Lisbeth dumped her clothes and lay out on a big towel. ‘Are you just going to leer at me, or can we. But he said, "Now is the time for the young," and recommended Lord Aoshi, giving himself the minor role of agent in Kyoto. Now he's just a worn-out old man, but--Okina: Oh yes, the people you asked me to look for. The search began yesterday.Misao: Search? Who for?Kenshin: It's no one you know.Misao (attacking): Why are you always like this!!Kuro: Okina. (handing him a folded piece of paper) Here.(Okina unfolds and studies the letter)Okina: Sorry, Misao, we'll have to do the Shirobeko another.