They left for their summer activities, and I started trying to think of ways that I could speed up my investigation. I was talking to Ring about the i...vestigation when I mentioned that it sure would be easier to do the grunt work if I had been able to see the murder.[That never occurred to me. I can show you that event anytime you ask. You just can’t do anything to make any changes in what happened. It is already frozen in the space-time matrix and can’t be changed. However, just looking won’t. Thus, any gold I used for trade must just be in small quantities that I would explain as having been taken in as fees from my doctoring of the miners. We certainly did NOT want people to even begin to think I might have made a new strike locally. Noticing that I was lost in my thoughts, Grandpa asked, ‘What are you thinking so hard about Clay? You’re sure not acting like it’s hunting. Your mind seems to be about 5 miles away.’ I looked over to the boys to see if they were paying much attention. But the council soon realized her brilliance, and gave her the name of Kirahani, the Hopewell name meaning Thoughtful Warrior. Kara and Mark stressed the importance of nighttime recon, a concept the Hopewell at first found shocking. But the value of the work soon became obvious, and it led to the plan that now involved almost every member of the Hopewell tribe between 10 and 95 local years of age. Their home village was currently occupied by infants and toddlers in the great common lodge, being. Small, made of stainless steel, it glittered menacingly under the now-bright lights. He played with it, moving it from hand to hand, making sure the quivering boy never lost sight of it. —To whom do you belong, said the master, finally deigning to address the pathetic mess before him. —to you, master, this slave belongs to you. —And who decides your fate? —you do, master. —That’s right. So if I say I’ve decided you’re to lose your useless balls, what possible difference do you think begging.