"A'moth nodded back. "Keep alert! In deep water, it can cover your twenty-three kilometers in less than forty seconds, about a minute if it's coming o...er land. But Pearl Harbor faces south, and the island is a mountain top dropping down steeply into the ocean. You'll sense the wave forty-some seconds before it gets here."I gulped and nodded. "Isabelle?" I noticed A'moth had two pair of high-precision binoculars around her neck. She took one pair off and handed it to me."Earlier today, I knew of. ” Gerry paused; he wasn’t quite sure what the man was getting at, so he kept his mouth shut. It was obvious the policeman was not amused and didn’t want an answer. “This is a $200 ticket and is worth 3 points on your license. I see here you already have 2 points. That means you lose your license if I write you this ticket.” “T..t…three points?” Gerry was taken aback. “Yes, three points.” Gerry buried his face in his hands wondering what the fuck he was going to do without. One morning, Ann, a mother of three kids, called me to inform that she was depressed. I inquired the reasons, but she refused to disclose pending our meeting. She offered to meet me, and I obliged with a deep sense of trepidation. She was around 42 years at that time, and I was 25. But age was no barrier; it was just another number. At the appointed time and place, she came to meet me, and we sat in her vehicle. We were nervous at first, but with time, things started to ease. We spoke on a hell. . coaxed him into a few moments of lucidity, and he told me his name, and that he was from Houston Texas."You ... you are my grandmother, and..." she paused, and swallowed hard. "You are my Grandmother."There was a long moment of silence. Then, though her expression did not change, Tika's eyes overflowed with tears."I'm ... I'm sorry I ... Oh please forgive me, I never knew..." Almona King told her, her own expression becoming distraught, and held her arms out to Tika, who stepped into her.