I had smoked pot a few times before, once with Danny and few times with my friend Erika so I knew the procedure and took a hit before handing it to Da...ny. We continued to pass it around the car while talking and laughing about various topics. I started to get pretty high as we approached the lake and was giggling and laughing at nearly everything they said. When we arrived at the lake I headed down toward the little cove which had the best place for laying out while Danny got a blanket from the. The mists began to clear and as he opened his eyes one of Yasmin’s helpers was wiping his brow with a cool cloth. Where am I?” His voice croaked.The girl looked alarmed and dashed away to be replaced by Susan’s face. Suppressed tears glazed her eyes, “Hello darling, don’t try to talk, you need rest now,” she whispered.“Need to know ... how we did?” he slurred.“You won, now rest,” she ordered, as his eyes closed.The mists cleared; he winched from the pain in his side as he moved to see someone.. A breeze blows through and I see that the tree limbs are actually touching the roof on my neighbor's house. That isn't good. I walk outside to get a better look at the situation and yes, it is really touching his roof and if I'm right, his roof looks like it may be rubbed bare. This is not good.I get a phone book and look up a few people in the tree trimming business and hope that I can find someone open on a Sunday. The first three numbers go to voicemail but the fourth is answered and I ask. Yet, I stayed there long after they were gone. Long after they were gone, I felt that invisible string connected to my chest. For the first time I really felt the loss and for the first time I really understood that there would be a group of baby girls - my baby girls - that I might never see. In the last weeks I had learned that that might be the way the Elves wanted to have it. A few of the older ones had been married before the incident that brought them here, but back then, they had been a.