"You're lucky that I won." She said. She opened the drawers in thecabinet next to my chair and started pulling boxes out. "Chris wanted togive you flo...ers but I think those are too girly. I think Janice willapprove of these."She handed me a clipboard and told me to initial about ten boxes andsign in three places. One of the boxes to be initialed discussedcartilage piercing. I asked if I was to initial that and was told "Ohyeah!"I handed the signed documents back to Karen and she studied my. Evidently things had gone from bad to worse with the older Kimberly. The two sisters had had no fishing success and the only real food besides coconuts over the past several days had been a dead sea turtle they attempted to cut up and cook."Oh it was SO bad!" Brittany exclaimed with a teenager's manner of over emphasizing complete disgust. "We had to cut away what the seagulls had eaten!" The two girls giggled. I assumed the sisters were at least not starving.Brittany commented on Jennifer's. Oh, and you're supposed to take the 5/4 out there to pick up another drum of gas after that," he informed me.It looked like I was now the errand boy. Oh well, my only real duty was using the radio in the evening, so these things would keep me busy during the day. Besides, with only six of us here a trailer of water would last a good while.Suenee and the other women had all left for the market by now and De Foor and I waited until the CO and Teams 1 and 2 had cleared the courtyard before moving. The walls were beginning to look like walls again, the river landings were shaping up and he was even thinking of digging out the harbour in time. The merchants weren’t cheating more than 5% over the odds, so even there he was still on the right side (15% markup would result on beatings and Ling didn’t want to be on the receiving end).All this was noticed in the letters to General Burton. People get jealous, people start to spread rumours. ‘When the walls are finished, he’ll make himself a war.