” The line was pretty long. There were a good 5 people in front of us still, and it didn’t look like it was going anywhere anytime soon.“Aww man...��I’ll go find a seat. I hate waiting in line ups,” she said before skipping away without even hearing for my opinion.“Whatever, I’ll just text her to find out where she is,” I thought to myself sullenly.While waiting for the line to shorten up, which took a good 10 minutes, I started texting my mom. When we’d left this afternoon, my mom was lying in the. "Can you hide this somewhere, just in case?"She nodded, jiggling the little weapon in her hand. "I'll put it in my bedroll. We're headed for Williamsburg, Jamestown and then Portsmouth, that's what I hear. And the British fleet is bringing supplies and reinforcements. They are eating well, all of us are, mostly beef looted from the farms up stream. Did you see the herd and the slaves? I've heard no complaints. But Cornwallis and Clinton are evidently in some sort of dispute; that's the campfire. ThenI told them we needed to sing both verses of God save the queen ten timesbefore I could use my hands. That took endlessly long, and Finley was outof sight long before we had sung it the second time.So we stopped singing, and I used the rest of the waiting time tointerview Jack about his preferences in nail polish colours. Why did helike pink the best? I tried to get eye contact with him, and I held bothhis hands while asking. He just replied that pink looked........OK. Iasked him if he. We all three lazed around for the rest of the afternoon and evening. I wasn't feeling communicative so I broke out a novel I'd been neglecting and used it as an excuse not to engage in conversation.There was a pall over the proceedings, and I'm sure Kim noticed that something was amiss. But she didn't say anything.After dinner I needed a shower. I first considered using the front compartment -- the telephone booth shower that was nominally Kim's, but that none of us actually had been using.