"Good God, no!" he finally exclaimed when he could finally get his voice to work. "Don't you even think it! That's impossible!"Look," he stated firmly...as he grabbed Pat's hand and then Sam's while looking directly at Grace. "Let me say this so there will be no misunderstanding: You three are the best thing that has ever happened to me, bar none. There is no one else and there could never be anyone else." But... ?" Pat prompted."But what?" he asked puzzled."There was a 'but' on the end of that. ’ Zach sighed and looked questioningly at his mother. ‘Hospital?’ Allie smiled sadly and nodded. She got up and left the room for a few minutes. When she returned, she sat beside him and held his hand. ‘The doctor will be here in a minute. He was just making his rounds. Zach, honey? How much of what happened do you remember?’ He closed his eyes and thought back. ‘Everything,’ he whispered in a raspy voice, ‘up until the gunshots.’ ‘Well, good morning,’ interrupted a cheerful voice with a. For_the_love_of_evil: opening up a little, good, good, tell me more Juliejulie4u2000: what do u want to know?for_the_love_of_evil: for starters, tell me whom you think about when you think about having sex with another woman?julie4u2000: no one in particularfor_the_love_of_evil: oh come now, there must be someone u thinks about when you are all alonejulie4u2000: just random faces and bodies, no one in particularfor_the_love_of_evil: I think about a neighbor of mine that just moved in last year.. It would prove useful if I was lucky, I might not even need to make any drying racks. Confident I had everything I needed for my quick trip, I made my way out of the cave and double checked to make sure that there was not any moisture in the wood to make the smoke visible.When I was sure that there was no chance of the smoke being seen, I turned towards where I knew Fardun was, and looked up to the sky. It was a two-day hike to the village, but at the speed I could go when I ran, I could do.