“The last thing I have is that I’ve got Mr. Gillespie coming up in late June to drill water wells. I know that’s an expense you hadn’t budgete... for but the creek up at the mine isn’t large enough, especially in the summer, to handle the number of people you’re going to have at the mine. Sofio and his people should be okay for now but come July it’s going to get tough without a couple of wells. The only thing that may delay his arrival is if we haven’t gotten the worst parts of the road. “I am starting to remember. Your name is Illia, and we had a friend called Maiho.”She nodded.He remembered that both of them had held him when he cried over missing his parents. Sometimes Maiho had cried too. Illia never did. Kin realised that Maiho would be an adult now. He tried to imagine what Maiho would look like all grown up. Illia looked very good all grown up.“You are pretty. You shouldn’t cover your face” he said.“Kin, lazy-bones, you be hurrying up. You be getting your arse out there.. I told her to relax and could search for some carpenter to do the job. As she was wet I offered her a towel so that the water from her hair and body could be removed. I knew that she will be requiring some clothes since her dress was totally wet. Water was dripping from her dress and my house floor was getting watery. I went to the room and nicely cleaned myself and came back to the hall to see what Uma was doing.She had removed her dress and had put on the towel in such a way that her body. I sigh and I run two of my fingers through my hair, ‘It was fine.’ ‘What did you two talk about?’ ‘Nothing really. I mean… Luke politely apologized and so did I,’ I say with an innocent shrug, my plastic fork cutting into my pancakes. ‘Why did you have to apologize? He was the one that called you a whore.’ I shake my head and I pull the piece of pancake off my fork with my tongue, contemplating what to say. ‘She simply apologized for running out on us and leaving us full of worry,’ Luke.