He had made it a point to call Boise weekly, no more than that. It was hard not picking up the phone every night to talk but he had kept it to Sunday ...fternoons only.At least half the time the phone was answered by her son Conrad or Holly, her daughter. He'd left Boise on good terms with them and they weren't uncomfortable talking to him. He knew too, they had spotted the connection between him and Helen. That had worried him for a while. Nothing was said but over time he came to believe they. “Mum loves trees,” said Dani, “she knows all the names and everything.”“It’s amazing,” said Sara, “and so private.”“I suppose it is,” said Dani vaguely, “Dad got it for us; well for Mum really, as he’s away all the time. It used to be two gamekeepers’ cottages, now it’s been knocked through into one.”I’d manoeuvred myself so I could look at her from behind. Her hair was various shades of glossy golden brown, not wavy like Natasha’s but hanging straight down right to the small of her back. Thick. I was a bit depressed in the beginning but as days passed I was back to normal…My mum’s oldest brother’s family also used to live nest to mami’s house and they had decided to move o another place maybe because the two sisters in law were not getting along well. So I decided to visit my grandma’s place. I heard grandma talk about visiting our native place in the summer vacation after Tom’s exams are over, and asked me if I could come with her. And this news made bells ringing in my ears and. Dahra took off the amplifier, crawled over to the terminal and pushed the "Status" button."Passing Chin. Distance from surface: three miles."Next portal optional."Dahra entered the command for more information."Lat fly-by in fourteen days, without portaling. Lat fly-by in ten hours, with portaling."Dahra didn't want to sit in this ship doing nothing for fourteen days, waiting to get pulled in by Lat's gravity well. But she didn't feel up to portaling right now, either, although with the.