.. and you can't imagine what a happy man that makes me."Jan returned his grateful smile, then glanced affectionately at her daughter who was wearing ... smug and warm expression of her own. She sat on the arm of her brother's chair and petted the massive wolf who lay protectively beside her, her beautiful blue eyes brimming with love and understanding, the devotion she was feeling toward all around her so obvious to her mother. Jan said: "It's not important, Darling, how a woman accomplishes a. I’ll call when we get back. Bye.” She closed the phone and looked at Keith who was watching with a bemused expression on his face, refusing to ask the question that was hanging over his head.“Okay,” she said. “That was my brother. He’s a worry-wart. He flew in from Japan the day after the explosion to make sure I was all right. I was supposed to meet him for dinner tonight and I completely forgot to call him.”“I didn’t know you have a brother,” Keith said. “All the mysterious men in your. He wandered up to the pool deck, and found Freaky swimming in his pool, as usual for this time of day. He sat at the patio table and helped himself to the orange juice that was in the pitcher, pouring it into a clean glass, and waiting for Freaky to finish.Something seemed a little off about the way Freaky was swiming, he seemed to be skim- -ming through the water, and he was swimming faster that he had ever seen him swim before. Faster than it seemed it was even possible. Steetch settled back,. We stayed like that for a moment."You better let me in, your neighbours will be throwing a bucket of water over us else!"I could see that she was near to tears and wanted to get her to laugh. I succeeded and we went into the kitchen, her laughter filling the room with beautiful sound.We sat at the same table as the day before, with papers spread over it ready for more of her notes. She put the book I had brought her on top of the papers and said "I suppose I should read this before asking you.