I can sleep everywhere.”“No, Dad, I don't wanna wake Mom.”“Don't be silly...”I heard Dad move around in the bed below me.“Honey,” Dad wh...spered.And then I heard Mom move as well.“What's going on? Why is the light back on?”“Tom can't sleep. He gets nauseous up there.”“Oh. Are you alright, sweetie?”“I'll be fine, Mom.”“Let me get up, babe.”“What are you doing?”“Switching with Tom. I don't mind sleeping up there. It's only for one night anyway.”“Alright, but...”And then Mom stood up. She was. "He gave up his ship, when the owner of the company offered him this job, but every now, and again, he takes us on a cruise, on what used to be his ship, and we spend a few days at sea, and have a wonderful time of it. The 5 of us have so much fun, and see so many things. Both the c***dren call him Poppy, and love him to death. He has been teaching our son so many things, and he worships our daughter. Ashley always goes with us. She is the same age as my daughter would have been, now. I see her. Time to get back to work." She said."What time is it?" Rajesh asked, rubbing his eyes."It's three-thirty. We have time for one more session before your dad comes home. Why don't you freshen up, then come back down to my bedroom, okay?" Lalita said."Okay." He answered.Lalita left and Rajesh washed his face and went back down to his parents bedroom. His amma was sitting at the foot of the bed waiting. He noticed a wooden chair nearby."What's that for?" He asked."Sit down and I'll tell you." She. My family lives down the road. When I met Andy, I was just a kid not wanting to apprentice under my father. We learned how to tend to the forge. Once we had built enough muscle to carry around a four-and-a-half kilo sledgehammer in both hands for hours at a time, her father moved us up to learn the basics of forging a sword. At the time, there was a lot of work to do. Going back and forth to my home lost time in the forge. Andy’s father built us a bedroom in the back of the furnace room. We.