I am glad to have that cleared up. What did you find? And you said ‘we’, and John is here, so did you work together on it?”“Yes. I needed his ...ilitary expertise to find in the forest whatever she was up to. I was only able tio find where she left the trail. John followed her tracks while she was back here in the cave. He found a small plantation – you would be best think of it like a garden plot where you grow herbs. This one was a large plot of one particular plant that she was cultivating. He stood back from the crush until medics walked off with a covered body on an old rolling gurney, subdued passengers followed under a wan afternoon sun and walked over to hotel vans and scooters like a small herd of cattle being ushered into a slaughterhouse. Death had come stalking and everyone apparently felt anxious relief at having been spared on this day. Berensen felt his own brand of relief as he watched his brother trundle down the gangplank and clumsily look after the body on the. Mary wasn't bad looking for her age , probably close to 70 and watching her cut her garden still was in good shape , she isn't the tallest either but in those leggings she had me rock hard . I was just going past her garden and still staring when she turned around and spoke to me , she caught me completely by surprise and I just about managed to say hello to her , she started to laugh at me and said was something distracting me or was I just staring at her ass to much , this had me really stuck. I had a hunch I'd seen and heard the last of Merilee, and that didn't leave me with a good feeling.The baseball game was boring and at some point I drifted off to sleep, my beer only half gone. I don't know how long I was out for, but it came to a quick end when my phone rang. It was right next to me on the table, so I jumped pretty good when it went off."Hello," I said, pretty sure I sounded groggy."Duke? Is that you, Duke?"It was a female voice and it sounded a bit familiar, but I couldn't.