Then my phone, which was on my desk, started ringing. I picked it up. It was Carl. “Hey Josh?” “Yeah?” “Are you still at home or are you o... your way over?” “I’m still at home” I replied, wondering if he was about to demand I get over now. “Cool, as you come over can you stop by my house? I left my wallet and my iPod there.” “I don’t know if listening to your iPod is allowed as a poker face” I replied, grabbing my keys and wallet. “Nah, its for Adam’s dock, he’s only got shit music on his.”. Jack asks, “Son ... what happened last night?”“Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door.”Confused, he asked his son, “So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table waiting for me??”His son replies, “Oh THAT ... Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off, you. Luther took the name and telephone number of the rubber-tired wagon manufacturer off the frame of the one we have, then he called and gave them Mr. Thompkins name and telephone number at the bank. Once they had his OK, they agreed to ship us ten more of the rubber-tired wagons by rail.When they arrived, they proved to be well worth the money spent, in the coming days.We’d ordered a boxcar load of fertilizer in fifty pound bags, directly from the manufacturer. It took us two days to unload the. I hadn’t wanted to be there when he found out that not only was he sick, but his best friend was dead. I felt responsible, though I wasn’t even – technically – a Warden. I dreaded seeing the pain in his eyes.I wasn’t the only one upset, I knew; Aedan had barely spoken since the rest of the new Wardens had been carried to their rooms, and Alistair held me just a bit too tightly while I cried. Will this be our life, now? Like Duncan, trying not to get to know the recruits, because we’ll lose some.