“I can explain, Sir...” Cherry began before being stopped by my upraised hand.We’d already discussed calling me ‘Sir’ in public so I wasn’... surprised that she’d used the correct form of address for the situation. “Do you always jump right into the middle of others’ conversations without greeting them first?” I asked.“Um, yeah?” Cherry said in surprise before catching herself. “I mean we already saw you this morning when you untied ... I mean before you left the apartment, Sir. So it’s not like. Thistime she would word the wish more carefully. "I wish to live in the oldwest, in a city, surrounded by great stacks of money!" A slow smilecrossed her evil lips. Knowing that with money comes great power ...***Upon opening her eyes, she faced a small man wearing a bowler hat, hewas eyeing five cards in his hand. She turned slowly and to herimmediate left was a young pock-faced boy with a scraggly moustacheand beard, the man tossed a silver coin into the center of the table andsniffed. ”“Should have plenty, I usually buy a pack of four cans at a time. So, your father is a Jeff too?”“No,” he laughed, “Funnily enough, he isn’t, but he has always called me Junior and it sort of stuck. My parents were never blessed with another baby after me, so I’m an only child.”“Sorry to hear that, Stephanie downstairs is an only child too, and for a long time only had the one parent. I think that is hard to go through life without a sibling.”“I think you’re right Lisa. Well, you can be sure. His reach and distance would be off. The worst thing he could do is get rusty, and not be able to complete a move the way he envisioned it because of his reach or balance or a hundred other factors.Aric got up an hour earlier than anyone else, and he practiced every day by himself.The other thing Caelan did was let him help more in the shop and use the anvil. The boy was a natural and did good work. Again, he would see Caelan do something once and he could mimic it exactly.Caelan was trying to.