Later I would report to the owners that half dozen or so people showed. During this time I use to explore the campgrounds remote areas and some of the...neighboring property. I would also keep a list of the birds I saw just so it looked like I really was doing something.This one Sunday morning a young girl, I guess her age at about 15 showed for the hike. I was hoping she wouldn't want to go alone, as I enjoyed my time alone. I said if she wanted to go anyway I would take her. She smiled and said. "You don't have to come, you know." Naaa," said Gary, tossing the glowing metal bar into a stone trough filled with water. Where the hell he'd gotten a stone trough Ken had no idea. "I'm done. The only thing I've learned fucking around with this shit is I gotta find someone to teach me what the hell I'm doing." What were you doing?" asked Ken."Trying to make a blade," replied Gary. "It ain't as easy as it looks." Never thought it looked easy," Ken said with a smile.Ken had never made a sword,. Four mugs of tea later we are all upstairs. The room is minute, a desk covered in junk, a single bed, and a sink-wardrobe unit that takes up most of the floor. There is barely room for us all to stand. Mike and Chris fall onto the bed and we get Mike out of everything but his boxers. We're all tired. Satellite goes to the bathroom while I drag the futon mattress out from under the bed and clear enough floor to lay it out. Coats and clothes all make a massive pile under the desk as we all get. Of course, if she came and told her something, she would discuss it with her but she really meant to just go on until then.Billy would be gone until Thanksgiving now and they had a tearfull goodbye session.Emily and Billy looked like a married couple parting for a long separation.Caroline thought nobody else noticed but she caught the implications.She feared they might be an "on again" item; the way they looked when Billy left made her think so.Did that make any sense? She was sincerely.