"You remember the first time we sat on a wall like this." Yeah it was just after we escaped the evil clutches of Gordy and hisgang." We've come along ...ay since then," he continued, "and I want to go a lotfurther." He slipped of the wall and knelt in front of me, quicklyopening a box. "Nikki will you marry me?"In front of me was a eight cluster diamond ring surrounding the biggestdiamond I think I have ever seen in my life."But how we can't I mean you know." No we can," he said, "it's perfectly. Recently translated text had referenced an object known only as Inanna's necklace, described as a magical totem of the goddess, but the doctor dismissed these stories as exaggeration. In reality, it was probably a religious totem, likely used in fertility rites. Finding it would be another notch in a belt full of notches for Dr. Anderson, and would be a remarkable breakthrough on understandings of sumerian culture.The team had located the temple, and had spent their first week documenting. A giant tree, much bigger and older than the rest sits among many smaller ones. The littler trees create a tunnel leading to it. A wooden ladder hangs down from the lowest branch. The branches come out of the tree like a perfect spiral staircase, leading up to the top where a little platform has been built. The truck slowly comes to a halt. I hadn’t noticed how long we’d been driving, or which way, but as soon as I look up I know where we are. “The crest,” I say. I’d been here before, but with. She drank deeply and put down her glass. "He brought them here, some of the officers. Introduced me, and I told them to get out, to leave." She swallowed and moved her empty glass on the polished table top.I looked at her. She was embarrassed I think."I made quite a scene, very loud. He hit me, my husband struck me, and then he left with those men. He cursed and said he would be back and I would be sorry." When was this?" I asked."Three days ago. It was Saturday," she said.I refilled her glass.