“That sounds great! Right?”Ted grasped for a reason not to. If they only ate men from the “brother” island, maybe he would be safe. And what a...out... “But our pilot... ?”“We bring him here” said Mali.“Come on, Ted” whined Jennifer. “Don’t be a wuss! This will be fun.”“Um ... I ... well...”The sun set early that night, and Ted found himself sitting cross-legged in the dirt around a big roaring fire in the center of the village, under the starry cover of darkness. A huge stone pot had been. “Bobbi, Willa, this is Tom Cooper and his friends that we saw yesterday while we were in town shopping.”“Yes Momma we see, what brings these strangers way out here, we don’t get that many visitors.”“Well, Mr. Clyde Yancey made a deal with me the other day to hire on these young ranch hands and keep them out of trouble while he works the kinks out of ‘em,” Tom said.Willa and Bobbi Yancey fell down to the ground, at the same time, as if they had been tripped by some unknown foot.They jumped up. . IS THAT?”, I asked, flailing my arms about as if it was me holding those flames and not my friend.“What? I thought you wanted to know if I could interact with miasma?”. Frank couldn’t help but keep the smug arrogance in his voice.He continued, “You really should get ready though. I am really giving no more explanations alone. Get ready fast to get your answers as soon as possible.”That was all the encouragement I needed. I got ready faster than I have before, although my clothes didn’t really. He seemed most interested in females, but given my Master's natural inclinations, those young males which were particularly attractive caught his eye as well. I would have been indignant under other circumstances, to see my owner engaged so openly with appraising what he must have regarded as potential bedroom slaves, but given my nervous state, my emotions were chaste and turned inward."Hmmm ... What do you think, Danielle?" my Master asked me suddenly, and I jerked at the unexpected sound of.