" "Please do so." "Get the female to lower her weapons. I wish for her to come back to our village. She is strong and will bare strong children. Offer...for us to take in her whelp as well," a growling tone came from her bracer as Rashak spoke to Lenath in hisses and growls. "I refuse," Avriel said cutting off their conversation. Rashak's eyes widen in surprise as the hisses and growls that issued forth her denial of his offer. "You cannot refuse I am the Rashak and you are a female," he growled. Sometimes only a few people showed up, other times there were twenty kids, but still no Brandon. I had walked by their house several times in the past four weeks, but nothing ever changed. The cars didn't move, but the grass was being mowed by a service. Becky and Cody continued to spend their evenings together, sometimes including me, but almost always allowing "private time". Becky told me one morning while we were washing the school buses that she had become quite talented at giving a boy. Ever since he'd been alittle kid he always wanted to be a scientist. His preoccupation withthe concept of time used to get him in trouble while he was in highschool; he'd show up late to class and confuse his teacher with amyriad of scientific theories and explanations detailing how he wasn'tactually late for class, that it was all just a matter of the teacher'sperception. Rob Cree was definitely not your stereotypical scientist. Earninghis Ph.D. at the young age of 23, Cree had spent the. 30 PM in the evening. I reached there in time.Exactly in time, the bus started but there were many empty seats. But as we started moving from town to town, more passengers started getting in. We had food at around 10.00 PM in a small town. I was hungry and had a good meal though the sanitary condition of the hotel was much to be desired.The bus started moving again. I dozed off. Suddenly, I was woken up by something striking my shoulder. I opened my eyes and found a lady dozing off and swaying.