Ura was sure that the two trails merged shortly and then the tribe of people who raised horses. Their breakfast were wild onions and turnips with swee... water. The onions were tart, turnips and water were sweet. Valerie kept belching up the taste of the onions.It was in the afternoon they spotted smoke from campfires. This was supposed to be the largest dwelling of people since they left Minion. It looked like it was another three or four hours so Jackson suggested that they find a suitable. Dave had just started practicing like the other men when Mary came back into the room with some things. She beckoned to Dave to come over to thecorner of the room where there was a table which she laid the items on.Dave could see a medium length dark wig, a black bra with lace cups, a reddress and some black court shoes.Mary said to Dave to take his shirt off and she picked up the bra, Davepresumed to help him put it on. Dave was slightly reluctant to getundressed with Mary and the other men. She insisted that she couldn’t possibly drink any more wine and excused herself to the assembly. ‘Come on Kate!’ exclaimed Greg as she got unsteadily to her feet to leave. ‘The evening’s only just begun. And I’ve poured you that drink now, at least finish that, then I’ll let you go.’ She smiled weakly as he put on his best puppy-dog eyes for the audience. Reluctantly she sat back down. She had nothing to do at all tomorrow and if she drank enough water before bed then she’d be ok for escaping. I mean, well, right from the beginning. And you’ve had time to get used to the idea, it’s come at me right out of the blue.’ ‘True, I understand darling. But I don’t think either of us wanted her to be a permanent part of us, did we? After all we’ve spent a lot of time talking about how we could help her, emotionally as well as physically I mean, because of what happened with Luke. We knew, or at least hoped, that because of what we’d done, when she met someone she really liked she wouldn’t.