‘Miranda.’ It came out as a whisper. Then, just loud enough for the others nearby to hear: ‘Oh my god! Miranda! I haven’t seen you in ages! I...didn’t recognize you without your glasses…how are you?’ Heather pulled another chair up next to Miranda and continued to make inane small talk just loud enough to be heard nearby. Once seated, she leaned close as if the two were sharing an inside joke. ‘I think I see what’s going on here, you dirty girl,’ she said quietly, smirking and nodding toward. ”“I was afraid that your parents would go broke even after I paid for your tuition, so I set up a trust for you that you would be able to draw on once you turned 30 years old.”Chelsea was speechless. “Why would you do that?” “When I saw through the pictures and emails from your mom what you had accomplished, I knew you might need help after you mom passed. I knew she was sick, but she never told me she was terminally ill. I knew she had probably built up debts you might need to pay. I was. I said " I see by your nipples that the weather is making you horny, some things never change".She answered, " No seeing you is making me horny", and flashed me a tit. Then she said, " What are you doing tonight big boy??". " You I hope", I replied. We both started laughing. She said, "Will you stay tonight. I hope your wife wont mind. I know your X wife wont". " Fuck you really are horny", I said. " Yeah horny as fuck. I was thinking what to do till as I thought you weren't coming till. Alawa helped me while Mataoka sat watching us from the house platform while she sewed clothes from all the skins we’d gathered trapping over the winter.Each evening we sat around a fire and Alawa and Mataoka taught me the finer points of their language and improved my pronunciation markedly. All attempts at teaching Alawa any English failed miserably, though, but Mataoka had a good humored laugh at the garbled words that she struggled with and we persisted without success.It was late in the.