“I love you, too. I never had such a lovelyrelationship. You’re the love of my life,” Andyanswered with a smile on her face. Now she...noticed howwet Sandy was.“You’re quite wet, girl,” Andy said. “Was it good?”“Delicious! What about mine?”“Fantastic, I swallowed it all!” She grinned.“Well, I would have done so, too, but I wasn’t able toswallow it all, as you can imagine.” “Just a joke, you look. .. we never... ," stammered Meiersdottir in a flustered voice."You are not here when first we think, and so we wait. Then in talk they say you come. But when you come you go only to Ghotagatogulagunga, not to us, and this is also not right, it is we who are Strong, it is we who risk lives to come to where we are, we who have done that which should make you come to us." I'm very sorry, Kalogakhing, we knew very little about you, we just went to where we'd been before—" You do not need be sorry,. Is that clear?" "Yes, Ma'am" "Don't be late" Demetra cautioned. "No, Ma'am" I answered. "Ok, good boy. Sleep well. I love you." "I love you too", I told her. The address she had given to me is Elizabeth mansion. It was a huge mansion and was beautiful from outside. The garden was full of roses of different colors. There were different flowers too. I went through a garden gate and up a short flight of stairs to a porch and the front door. I rang the bell rather nervously.. Her neck was stiff from hanging off the bed; it took great effort to lift her head and then pull herself into a sitting position. Lucky licked her face, then her neck, then her face again. Laughing, she reached out and hugged the dog to her. “Thank you,” she whispered into his ear. She clung to the dog, eyes closed again, breathing slowly in and out. Just as she released her hold on the Sheppard, something hot and wet brushed her leg. Without thinking, she reached down to find out what it was..