If one looks at our records in the government, (yeah, we're legals), you see a lot of Juniors, and III's. My father was born in 1928 and mother in 195....It's an odd place to grow up, but not as weird as you might think. We have a fairly modern lifestyle you know. I watched cartoons, cable TV, MTV (Oooh the temptation to bewitch Jon Bon Jovi was soo hard to resist!) and we played with regular toys, and my mother had a microwave oven even, despite my grandmother's nagging. We ate regular food,. A man was seated at a desk. He rose to his feet when he saw the family get off the elevator. He walked around the desk to greet them."Good evening folks. I'm Mr. Bates, assistant coroner." He extended his hand to Janie but she did not offer her hand to him."I'm Janie Wilson. Can we just get this over with?" Yes ma'am," replied Bates, "But I will need to see identification."Bates knew he didn't really need to see Janie's ID, but the fact that she didn't offer to shake his hand pissed him off. No. 'The language had two ways of describing an indeterminate number greater than one. Sometimes, such as the 'fawrifawri, ' they repeated the noun twice. Other nouns were more conventional and involved altering the last vowel or vowels. Generally, a definite number was described by using their Polynesian based counting words following the noun. Golovko suggested it was because of the many influences the language absorbed and he likened it to English.The passage was lit by electric lights driven. They scraped again on the way back down. Eldrian pushed against the back of the box but it didn’t move. Nor did any of the walls. A space so tight he couldn’t even hope to sit. Overhead, stone ground against stone. He looked up in time to see a lid sliding into place. It made a thunk as it sat snug with the rest of the box, totally sealed save a tiny hole in the right corner near the top of the door, too high to peek out of. ‘Punishment begins.’ === He’d gotten turned around somehow, there.