I was able to see that the last time she reached in, the cupboard was bare once she removed her last bill.Lady luck was not on her side - the machine,...even though it was a penny machine, gobbled up her money in a matter of minutes. I heard her let out a stream of obscenities under her breath. Sounded like she had spent her gas and grocery money for the week.I also caught a sense of desperation in her voice; I could tell that she didn't have a nice credit line of available cash that she could. What the kid’s father had said was also correct; there were rumors of great new developments in the works. The problem was they probably wouldn’t come to fruition, since the company didn’t have the money to invest in the designs, being much more likely to fold completely.I decided that it was worth pursuing, but I couldn’t do it myself since I wouldn’t be taken seriously. So I got Andy to do it on my trusts behalf, the first thing he did was to approach the retired owner.He did that to explain. She started bitching Jan out for being in my fort, saying that I was a boy, and that boys only had one thing on their mind. Then she told Jan to get her ass out of my fort and to never come back again.Jan leaned over, kissed me, and then whispered in my ear. She had a plan.Jan got down and started to crawl through the tunnel. Her mother got down and started to crawl behind her. Then I unzipped my pants and pulled my pecker out. Jan just went in far enough for her mother to get part way in. Jan. .. bound up in their lives and they in mine." So you now travel with a pair of Vulkai young, and you cloak yourself in Winter Wolf pelt?" I do. The male Vulkai's pelt, the one who sought to harm us, not their mother's." I assume that is also where the new ornaments on the pommels of your weapons came from then?" Ahh, you noticed that? Yes, the eye teeth of that Vulkai made a far better finish to my new weapons than what I had planned, and I did not have to become indebted to King Tynis to earn.