” Rael smirked wryly down at her and reached up with one hand to run his strong fingers through her thick black curls. “That’s a pretty good bit...of ground to cover. We’ll take it one question at a time.” Silmaria thought for a moment, then ran her fingertips slowly along the broad band of scar tissue running diagonal across his chest, down to his hip. “Let’s start with the whole you being immortal bit, then.” Rael laughed softly at that. “Not immortal, no. I’m pretty sure that I can and will. Whatever was causing the noise was way out of the ordinary.We hurried down the stairs and saw Dog in a death struggle with two coyotes. He finally clamped those big jaws on the one and I could hear the crunching sound as he bit through the animal's neck, He twisted in mid air, dropped the one he had just killed and engaged the other. He made fast work of him too.Then he staggered over and picked up a dark bundle and brought it to me and laid it at my feet and collapsed. I could see he was hurt. Despite the lack of light, he was able to see himselfclearly,and in the distance he thought he saw another personAndrew: "hey! Over here!"The figure turned and walked over to him, as it got close, he saw it was agirl, the same age as him roughly. He knew he had never seen her beforeinall his life, yet she looked so familiar.Andrew: "what is this? A dream or something"Girl: "Maybe, that would explain all this"It was driving him crazy, everything about this girl seemed so familiar,he finally. Daffodil spotted themright away."Mommy, Daddy," she ran happily to their table. After the initial hugfest Darlene looked at Tim and I."Momma, I thought she was staying with Momma Jill," Darlene said. "I'mthrilled to see her here." she asked, "Where's Cookie?" In Grammas truck."When they were finished eating Daffodil threw a fit wanting to ride withher new parents."I don't see any harm in it, she already knows more than half theplatoon escorting you," said SSG Nash."Don't you wish you could have.