I brooded over this for quite a while, months in fact. Then I decided that I had completed my task under "The Plan." Gary was safe and I was going hom... -- I would find a way home.I spent hours researching the possibility of overriding the error codes in that transmitter. I still had it, although I had had to go retrieve it from my hiding place under the Franklin overpass. Amazingly it hadn't rained since Gary put me up at the Concord nor had anyone found it and disposed of it.I remember. "AAAAHHHH!!!" Rick yelled as he realized the strange place he is in is the basement, just on a vary large scale. "HELP!" He cried out, hoping someone would hear him. Against all odds, he did receive help in the form of his now towering brother Boddy. What once was a pipsqueak now looks like a titanic sized two year old to the eyes of the shrunken Sampson. "Bobby, I'm down here." The blond haired child looked down and Rick thought he was saved, that is until his brother put him in his pocket.. .." Emory said with heat of his own. "Erin you are the last member of a once powerful royal family. There, is that better!" Emory glared at Arthur."Erin, perhaps I should take over this tale, as this is not Merlin's forte?" When Erin nodded mutely, Arthur picked up the narrative."Are you familiar with the story of the fall of Russia to the communists, and in particular the death of Czar Nicolas II and his family? I believe it was the spring of 1917 as you measure time in the mortal world. The. Suzie-Q was first up to join us. She had coffee heavily laced with milk and sugar. She looked Karen in the eye and said, “I have to share my bathroom with your parents. I was listening. Neither of you showered last night. The shower on that side of the hall only ran once this morning. Both of you are freshly showered. Did you shower together?”Karen and I both blushed. I looked at Karen. She grinned at Suzie-Q. “We just try to save water.”“That may be true. That’s not why you were making noise.