Are you going down to the creek later? I’m thinking a good swim’ll help the day go by.’ I looked at her blankly for a moment. Most of my aftern...ons were spent sitting down by the creek lately. Did she know? Had she followed me? I never was one for swimming, but the trees and the breeze that kicked up off the creek made a cool, shady spot that I could sit at for hours. Pictures of her sitting next to me, her arms around me as I leaned her back on the cool grass danced through my head and I. We went out and got in my car. The kids wedged into the back seat and I rolled out and over to Sandy’s house. She saw us and came out before I could cut the engine. I did get out and help her to her seat. She was wearing slacks with the same blouse and carrying a sweater.I headed to the Embers. That name for a place that specialized in seafood never made sense to me. I had been with customers at the restaurant a few times and one of them had asked. The host came over because our server didn’t. Lush and bright, a vivid shade that doubtfully exists below the ground, and yet here can virtually be seen at every turn of the head.The vegetation was breathtaking, and most outstanding were the heavenly wide and tall trees!Unknowingly panting, from his eye level view, Zax slowly began to gouge the size of the trees up ahead as he raised his head.Ten, twenty, thirty meters ... and they kept going up.Seventy, eighty ... one hundred ... one hundred and fifty ... almost three hundred meters. He still refrained from looking down again though, not wanting to run the risk of losing control once more.Twenty minutes later, Donnie had climbed around one hundred and twenty feet higher when he noticed what looked like a ledge only ten feet above him."Maybe I'll be able to rest there for a few minutes. I just have to keep my concentration for another ten feet and then I can take a breather – no mistakes now," he warned himself.As he got closer, Donnie saw that there was a large bird nest at.