.. four years from when I checked." Well ... if you say so."The conversation with Violet was ongoing ... had been ongoing for three days after Ed and ...eph drove home from Pentwater. Violet was in a foul mood and had been giving the Kaulocamloes the fits. Seasickness and Violet didn't get along.The Kaulocamloes greeted Seph and Ed with the information that "the 'ouse is hainted, and we h'aint putting up with a second more." "What's more," they said, "we'uns have to go Alamabamaladingdong to. If you choose to allow us to build and give us a site, we could probably have a concept design to you within a day. Then if you approve the design, we could have the ground repaired and the building built inside of another day.”The Mayor and the men with him, obviously were not used to working at such a fast pace, the Mayor looked at his counterparts and asked them what a reasonable response time for this request should be. The city planning guy said he already had a dozen or so properties in. He wasn’t sure why, but he really wanted their first child to be a boy. ‘We can’t think up a name before we see him,’ complained his Lei. ‘It might not suit him.’ ‘Of course, we can,’ insisted Kokata. ‘I know exactly what he is going to look like.’ He didn’t really, but imagining would be nice. ‘What will he look like?’ asked his woman, reaching out for her cold, cooked meat. ‘Well, he is going to be a beetle, of course,’ said Kokata. ‘There’s no doubt about that.’ His Lei nodded, her mouth. This could all unravel on us.My brother put his arm around me. “You did good, Pam.”“Not good enough,” I said, on the verge of falling apart. “I failed. I'm so sorry. I didn't reach through to her.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Alesha Walsh“You're going to be a grandmother,” I texted. I sat on the couch. The trial had just ended. My brother had ordered pizza for our dinner. He was in the bathroom. The living room smelled wonderfully of sex. I ached from how many times I'd taken my brother in my.