It was ten AM and there were only a handful of cars in the lot, Frank, the man she spoke to the day before, mentioned they didn’t open for business ...ntil three in the afternoon. It was pretty much as she expected, a long bar on one side and seating up to the stage opposite that. There was a DJ set up next to a row of benches and what looked to be a back room. She approached a man sitting at the bar drinking coffee and asked if he was Frank.“Yes I am,” was his reply. “And you must be Sally.”She. Abdul Hadi's Third Tower has the popular but unofficial title of "And The Government Shall Be Upon His Shoulders," and details the period from 8316 to 8447, describing the creation of the modern government and ending with the celebration on the six-day Preacher's Judgment of 8448 and the start of the current Holy Millennium. The reader may wonder why we still base our calendar from the date Bandar the Wanderer entered the city of Punta Arenas after the global nuclear war, but Bel'dar's calendar. All-in-all, we were about as non-threatening as we could get!Alice had everything under control when we pulled up to the front door with the wagon. It was an instant sensation and everybody wanted a ride after we presented our elk as the friendship gift. They gave us some jerky in exchange, hardly an equal swap, but it was the thought that counted. There were 12 people in the group, so it was a tight squeeze to fit everyone in the wagon at the same time, but a grand time was had by all. We had. Villalobos’ eyes on me and I had a frenzied thought that he could somehow read my thoughts. I erased the smile from my lips and glanced at him again. He leaned slightly forward. I ran a hand over my nose and down my neck as naturally as I could, checking for something that would invite such scrutiny from a stranger. I looked down at my blouse and found that it was indeed buttoned appropriately. That’s when the applause broke out and I saw out of the corner of my eye that Mr. Villalobos had.