It was a warm night in June and she had been busy since dawn. She fell asleep. As she slept she could have sworn she saw something bright that almost ...it up the entire wood, just like six years ago. But she was too tired to react.Hours later she opened her eyes and almost screamed. Two women were standing and looking at her. One of them was carrying a basket. A cat basket."Who are you two? I suppose you know this is private property?" Hello Diana. My word you look happy. Marriage and motherhood. "There was a hesitation before, "And ... there's something else that I have to watch out for." Oh, what's that?" Matt asked as he eyed a big platter of something sweet and steaming that Helen had just put on one of the coffee tables."More who than what," Eric returned. "Alice and Terri. And Terri is already fourteen." At Matt's raised eyebrow, Eric went on, "Both of them have adamantly stated that they are impatiently waiting to be old enough to become my wives. They're my daughters. Until I. Cut them at the scalp.’ My right hand curled around the dagger hilt. Moving to his side, I searched for the hair strands as he inclined his head to assist me. His hair was longer than I remembered in my dream, it reached past his shoulders, tied back with a dark leather thong. I cut six strands of brown hair as gently as I could, holding them across my left palm. He took the strands from me, braiding them rapidly into a fine cord, which he then fastened about my wrist, the knot merging. Life became better. Human beings also started building houses closer to each other, so that they could live together. [Adapted from an Indian folktale]They formed a short caravan before nine: Sam and Tessa, Jos and Zeke, Andy and Henk. At the lumber yard the work crew (such as it was) stacked the lumber and the rolls of felt into the beds of the utes. In addition to hammers and saws, Sam had purchased a pair of saw horses, a spirit level, an 8-meter tape, a kilo of tacks, five kilo of 65mm.