It was worth a shot; please pardon the pun.‘Frank, go get my gun,’ Tanya suggested. Tanya had a light, twenty caliber automatic pistol she kept in...the dresser.‘What?’ Frank exclaimed, not understanding what game the ‘girls’ wanted to play now.‘We need the gun,’ Tanya said, not explaining. ‘Just get it and bring it here.’Beth was getting butterflies in her insides from the building excitement. Not only did Tanya understand her needs, she was going to help her experience them! She touched Tanya’s. Gayle smiled and nodded then walked away. The motor roared to life with a just a click of his key chain and he sped away. I didn’t even get a look at the street signs as he sped down the streets. ‘Honestly I don’t remember her.’ I said. I was trying to get some kind of bearing but he was making sure to keep his eyes strictly to the road. I know I could identify each and every yellow dash mark between wherever that house was and where we were. ‘She used to be a red head.’ I know he felt it when. Never had a girlfriend, but I did have a lot of exotic pets.” The class giggled, having found something oddly funny about that statement.“Thank you, Jonathan. Would both gentlemen please step out into the hallway, but don’t go too far.” James and Jonathan stepped out of the classroom into the hall.“Now class, in your notebooks, I want you to write down the names of both James and Jonathan.”The class did as they were told. “Now recall each one. Reflect on your impressions of each one. In. You have a fine son." We left the next day, a dozen or so of us mounted on good horses. We saw no brigands, dangerous animals gave us a wide berth, and so we came swiftly to Elf Home!" He fell silent for a moment, gazing into the fire."Elf Home! How can I describe it to you as I first saw it? A level valley, nearly round, all ringed about by sheer mountains. As though the peaks had been allowed to rise by some slow garden magic that had pruned and watered and nurtured them like a great stone.