) Were scholars and students have tried to search and research her, but know one really knows anything about her. And so people moved on, and she was ...emembered only in legend, with the occasional sightings reported by ignorant and naive native Indians. Now it was a tale told as a bedtime story and fictional tales of adventure are told about her and her mysterious ways to were children. Now my sister was telling me that the last dryad was real and had recently given birth to twins, and I was. We had purchased several apartment buildings between Grandfather's building and the slum area west of Central Park West, partially as a buffer against the slum encroachment and partially because being next to a bad area had depressed the prices of apartment buildings. When the government announced plans to clear the slums and build Lincoln Center, we already owned several pieces of property along the fringe of the proposed project, and exercised purchase options on a number more. Some of the. Again, we were not equipped for ditching in deep water, so I ordered a left turn to move along the coast. We moved along about a hundred klicks and there was a sudden change in the topography. The forest ended rather abruptly and there was an open area, much like a desert, extending for miles. The difference was that this area caused our compass to run wild. It twisted and turned with no obvious rhyme or reason. The soil was a bright red, very much like a recent coating of iron rust. I wondered. Luckily itwas never more than a few minutes out of my sleepingschedule and only a few times a month at most.College life was a blast. The classes were interestingand my fellow classmates were all very special to me.There were a few of the athletes though that made me alittle uncomfortable in a few of my first year classes.The athletes were the only black people on the campus.I had never really spent any time around blacks beforeand they seemed very primitive and strange with theiroverly large.