"Ok how are we going to do this?" Phil asked about thesleeping arrangements. The room they had chosen had two separate beds in it anda desk and tabl... in it to. "Well how about Alicia take one bed and we'll takethe ...." Gavin started to suggest before Alicia cut him off mid sentence."No, no, no. Phil you take one bed and I'll share with Gavin." She said. She wasfirm in the way she meant what she had said so the boys let the arrangementsgo as that, Phillip in one bed and Alicia and Gavin. At the same level yet closer to the mast and wheel house was a new block of something mechanical. I investigated to find a heat pump. It vented down into the salon and would either heat or cool as desired. It would also dehumidify damp cabin air, a definite plus. I'd have to install a few 12-volt fans to move the treated air around the ship, including below decks.The propane stores had been moved to a new locker between the centerline door at the stern of the salon and the port side-passageway.. . I won’t go if you’ll miss me too much. I; well I wouldn’t want to mess ‘us’ up”Max interjected “Remember? That’s where this story changes. You implied that you’d miss her too much, that she was too important to you. And when you’d sown the doubts, you suggested that maybe exposing her body in underwear shots would mark her out for low quality shoots, maybe she should keep herself for the real success of haute couteur – is that what it’s called? Don’t get a lot of that in my biker circles”“I. .. too smart.” He forced down the lump in his throat that threatened to rise, the memories of his conversation with his sister coming up. “You said he looked like a loan shark, remember? That was funny.”Samantha did not stir. Her eyes didn’t flicker underneath her eyelids. Her fingers remained still, and pale, sitting on the hospital-green bed sheet. Her lungs moved, but only because a machine was making them. Half alive, like him, in a way.“I said goodbye to Mary. She didn’t have much to say,.