Friends. I read somewhere that it's good to have friends of different ages and from different backgrounds and such. If you match, I mean." Yeah. That ...match' thing, though, that's kind of nebulous." Nebulous," she giggled. "You're the first person I ever heard use that word in conversation." You're the first one in a long time that I thought would know what it meant." It hurt, you know." What hurt?" I asked."Thinking you couldn't be my friend." Why couldn't I be your friend?" I wanted my friend. Agate started taking a few steps to the top of the hill to have a peek, but Pua pulled him back.“Not that way, they’ll spot you!” Pua admonished.Pua led everyone around the hill through some dense foliage — Vennoa and Fender had to walk along this time — and soon they could look down the other side of the hill. Similar to before, there were many kobolds digging in the fields. But this time, there were no goblins in sight. Instead, there were two kobolds in the air circling around. They looked. Hestarted trying to not make any noise at all with his shoes, and foundthat he saw more and more animals. He nibbled on the bread for a bit.As he was finishing the first piece, a Blue Jay swooped down and landedon the road about five feet in front of him. It squawked twice. "Youwant some bread," Ricky asked, and tore off a crust and tossed in a fewinches from the bird. It grabbed the bread and flew off. Suddenly therewere dozens of birds. Orioles and cardinals, finches and sparrows,. You’re just a foreman…” I could tell by the silent momentthat followed that mamma knew she had slipped again. My dad was an angry manand hated to be reminded that he was only a foreman after so many years. He hadtried to work his way into a management position but had got out-maneuvered bysome other guy. “Yeah, woman, so you keep reminding me…aw shut up, listen(where’s the damn bottle opener!) His k*d is some sort of slicked-up, porschedrivin’ spoiled.