I remembered she had packed some snacks so I grabbed those and two coats and went back the cabin. Gloria was awake and sitting up in bed, I asked her...how she felt, ‘Very sore and pretty fuzzy but all in all I feel pretty good.’ I found a plug for her phone and then we had a breakfast of chips and some mixed nuts. ‘Gloria, I’m afraid we’re stuck here at least until we can charge your phone enough to dial out for help.’ ‘After last night I don’t care if we ever get out of here. Rich, didn’t you. With confidence and anticipation, I strode out my door.By the time I reached the door to my parent’s room my anticipation was unchecked but my confidence had waned somewhat. Mom hadn’t actually asked me to come. What if Dad was awake? My pajama’s weren’t exactly tenting, shrinkage having wreaked havoc with my new found anxiety, but I was still loose and fancy free under there and anything could happen. I looked down; not now, anyway. I was through the door, having continued walking.The room was. Maria was wearing a cream-coloured dress, a pleasing contrast to her olive skin tone. She leapt to her feet to give me a hug. “You look really hot,” she said. “It’s a shame you’re gay.”“You look absolutely stunning,” I said, causing Maria’s smile to intensify. Then after she released me, I turned to the others and said, “Hi guys,” getting mirror responses from my nerd friends. They were all wearing suits, the smartest I’d ever seen them, although I doubted very much that Dimitri could have. Well, Percy would eat anything – not that he had any choice in what he was fed. The contents of the bucket, along with a shovelful of the cheap pig meal they'd bought for him, would fill his belly and keep him from feeling hungry for several hours. A thought struck her, and she hurried back outside to the vegetable garden. Whilst feeding the chickens, she'd noticed a small cabbage, its leaves limp and brown from the first frost of the coming winter and she cut it from its stalk and went back.