His face had some crow's feet and had tanned from hours spent in the sunlight, but the lines which cut his face had been etched in stone.Just thinking...about him made her sigh to herself, made her tingle in forbidden places and damn it, she was wired enough. She hadn't had any action as it was called on the ranch in six months after breaking off a brief affair with a ranch hand who had been hired for the winter season. So she had been itching ... but it couldn't be just anyone ... she wanted. "After I asked her two more times, the flustered woman finally began to function. When the trunk was open, I led the horse by hand in a circle and backed the wagon up to the car trunk. I set the brake and walked to the back of the wagon."Helen, put this box in the trunk." When that was done I took one imperial quart of my special preserves out of a box and put it at the end of the wagon. The girls just looked at the gold instead of doing something about it. "Girls, take the jar and put it into. All we needed was a down payment to get out. The trouble was, every time I saved a little, Donna found something to spend it on."I'll pick you up tomorrow, same time." Thanks Marty." Marty and I grew up together. Neither one of us planned to work the mines, but that's how it ended up. He was going to join the Air Force, but they wouldn't take him without a high school diploma. I wanted to become a certified auto mechanic of some type. That didn't work out either."Hey Travis. Where is the. I was able to remove the shard from you. You will recover." Thank you." Shen said. "There are no words to express my gratitude." Those will do fine." Mai Li replied. "I could feel your agony as the crystal tortured you, and even though the wound closed, the pain wouldn't stop." How?" I have very strong healing powers, made even stronger with Kori's power over the various mystic elements." What you describe this Kori to be sounds like some of the legends my grandfather used to tell us about the.