"Oh, well," Mark said finally. "This is going to make for a real team. At least, it's really going to look like a dog team."As luck would have it, Jac...ie and Kirsten were sharing a cup of coffee in Jackie's kitchen when they drove up Mark's driveway. Mark, Mike and Cumulus were hardly out of the cab of the truck when the women came outside to see how bad the damage was."Is that four dogs I see in the back there?" Jackie asked. "I thought you were going for one, maybe two at the most." We got. Allison, Myra and I were still mostly staying in Houston for the moment, the women staying close for regular fittings of their gowns, which of course we men were not permitted to see but were told that they were 'absolutely unique'. I had wondered how a bride was going to wear white at a nude wedding. Boy, would I soon find out!Checking the P.O. Box one day in Houston, just about as that sudden Tropical Storm was starting to hit, I saw a pair of usual letters that quite caught my eye. The first. She blushed.We got into the bus.We chatted a while and she told me about her hostel life and her ambition to go to USA and to excel in her career."What about your guy? "I innocently enquired"Well these guys are small boys . I need to get settled when i am ready for a man." Which means you wont settle down now ?" No not for two three years" What if you get into a relationship?" I don’t want to?.Do not ever think i will?" What about a fling?" How naughty? Why not ? Maybe !Just for the heck. The Royal Armorer had forged Merry's fighting dagger from the finest steel, and then taught her how to defend herself against a variety of weapons.It was a surreal encounter in the moonlit glade, a woman battling a gleaming skeleton, blades winking in the unearthly light. Blow countered blow until Merry saw an opening and kicked at a bony knee. The creature's leg collapsed under it and it fell heavily to the ground.Merry leapt on her opponent without thinking, her ingrained training coming to.