And then I almost got panicky when a thought crossed my mind that maybe I was going to be chastised for my naughty thoughts about Mr. and Mrs. Santa. ...��Hey, hey,’ came a very gentle voice. ‘You are moving towards a panic attack, and this is only a dream. In fact, it is your dream, and I am just a visitor.’ Santa had found his voice, and not a minute too soon. His voice had an indescribable soothing yet invigorating tone, a blend of crooning with chuckling at a mid-tenor pitch range. It was not. There was treachery over a land dispute and blood was spilt. Your two trail guides joining you tomorrow are Al-Bashrani."Yakhir digested the information before he spoke, "There is a great divide between clans out here on the coast?" Shaheen and their allies seek to divide and conquer. Nowhere is particularly safe these days. I transferred from the northern fields of the rift valley to the coastal plain where I knew we had more numerous allies. I am more at ease in the bosom of. " Me too."Carly couldn't resist. "And they ARE great legs." Thanks."Sometime during the short discussion arms had crept around shoulders and they held each other."What now?" Well what would you normally be doing on a Friday night?" Just hanging around. Probably with Freddie and Sam. Maybe Spencer too. What about you?" The same. Either with my friends or sitting in my apartment reading or studying." Your apartment?" Uh-huh." You have a roommate?" No it's a little one bedroom place off. We had met when my parents moved to Birmingham from Gadsden Alabama and I started high school at Shades Valley High.I was sixteen years old soon after school began that year.I had played Basket Ball at Gadsden.I made the girl's team at Shades Valley.Jimmy was a quiet kind of boy. He was said to be going with a girl from another school and that was the reason he never asked a girl from Shades Valley for a date.Every girl in school tried to get Jimmy Parsons to notice her.Jimmy was the second.