I scanned the great expanse of the basin with eager eyes. It spread remoter and remoter, with only a few clusters of sere thorn bushes here and there,...and the dim suggestions of some now waterless ravine, to break its desolation of yellow grass. Its dull distances melted at last into the bluish slopes of the far off hills... hills which looked to be of a greener kind, and above them invisibly supported, and seeming indeed to hang in the sky, were the summits of the ice shelf's that grew larger. I felt as if I was pregnant. Not with areal baby of course, but with a vortex of tender, motherly love churninginside of me. My belly, although distended, was warm and smooth at thetouch. My belly button was jutting out as happens to a pregnant womanwhen her belly bulges out. I had mood swings, typical of hormone surges,and the definite sensation something was moving on the inside. It was abit like I could feel the baby kicking sometimes! Heaven on earth for atranswoman, I thought, mustn't be. I hugged her brotherly and I said it is not time for crying lets help the guys. We took them in the tent and I checked there were alive yet but very cold. I put some wood in the fire. There was a loud crying that shocked me I found that the petite and the other woman were crying together in each other’s arms. I made tea, and little by little the guys started to move and they got out of the faint. First my friend the husband of petite came back and when saw me started to weep for what he has. They had one computer program using a VPN that needed IT help, but the rest was web based, and off she went.She admitted she wouldn’t be working long, maybe a year, year and a half, at the outside, but she enjoyed helping people and as a customer service representative, that’s what she did. She mentioned the odd cranky person now and then, but overall, Justine said her job was rewarding.Diana called me and told me to take care of the both of them. She’d heard through the grapevine about.