"Do you mind if I tell my niece how proud we are of her?"Bear was Joseph's older brother, as well as a Montana State Trooper."Uncle Bear!" Tina was ha...py to see him. She also knew that if he wasn'twearing his hat this was a personal visit.They visited a bit then he left so they could get some rest.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Pulling into the stop they all began refueling. "Hatch' can Tina and Iborrow the jeep real fast? I want to get these checks deposited into thebank."At. Allison called Smoke and said she was interested in seeing him about some stuff. At first Smoke didn't know who he was talking to. Allison said she was the girl he met the other night with Jim. Smoke said I thought your name was Tara not Allison. This got Allison pissed so she said no not that girl! The girl that saw your home made porn tape! Smoke started to chuckle and said your the hot young thing that thinks my dick is fake right. There was a long pause and then Allison said well yea I am. They had all asked him about his job and how much money he made. His conversations with Larissa were never about money or jobs or marriage. They talked about the ocean, the environment and food. He loved that about her more then any of the other women he had gone out with. And kissing and holding her was so different from any of the other women as well. There didnt seem to be any motive in her kissing. She didnt seem to be trying to impress him like the others had. Her kisses were soft and na?. When the sun came up in the morning we could tell that they had remounted the mast before quitting for the night. I had to mentally approve of Filo’s decision there. Mounting the mast at night was doable, as all the work was on deck or in the hold. Sending men up the mast in the dark of the night would just be demanding that Murphy kill a few of them. With the mast remounted -they called it being ‘stepped’ on Earth but I wasn’t going to insist on that term here- the Sea Fortune was balanced.