We don't know what they liked about them, but even subsistence hunter-gatherers starving in the snow in Alaska as they searched for the Promised Land ...iked their dogs enough to share their meager food with them so that they could survive the trek with them. The dogs must have had some value to those nomads, a value so great they would support them the same way they supported their own children. Perhaps it was a religious dictum of some sort. "Thou shalt care for thy dog as thou carest for thy. " I was saving myself for someone special," Carly said. "So fun wasn't an option. Trouble was he didn't even know I was there waiting, then he got married." Man's a fool, but again there's none as blind as those who cannot see," I said. "Perhaps you should have asked him?" Knowing what I know now, yes, Ian, I should have," she sighed. "Now, come have a dance with your sister as this conversation's getting decidedly maudlin."The disco was playing a few classics from the past and we got up and. The cork was a lot morestubborn, but it finally popped out. There was an immediatejet of smoke from the bottle's mouth, accompanied by aroaring sound. The smoke didn't disperse but formed anodd-shaped cloud about eight feet tall, reaching just to theceiling. As more and more smoke poured out, it added to thecloud which became increasingly dense and almost solid,looking like an oversize human form.And then it _was_ human. Or humanoid. A huge swarthyfigure, only somewhat lighter in color. "And keep your distance!"The Elf prepared her trusty bows and arrows while Maya wielded her throwing knives. Hawk and Holgreb the Dwarf, possessing no long-range weapons, stood before them to give them cover. The two girls began firing their weapons, giving cover as the other two men retreated."D ... Did y ... you see the size of that ... thing?!" Roberto blurted out."Foul folks have touched their feet on Heaven!" The Fairy cried. "We have been disgraced!" Arrows and blades will slow them.