‘Welcome Doctor Marcus Oleson’ Ava responded as the door opened. “Would you like to come in and continue our conversation?” he asked as he tur...ed to Siena. “Well, um, I think that I should let you get settled,” she said as he rung her hands behind her back. “If you feel up to watching me record my next lesson, please send me a message and I will come and show you were our studio is.” “I will. Thank you for showing me my quarters and telling me about the station. I look forward to more. "What you doing by yourself little girl?" I'm not so little!" Hmmm." He looks her up and down like she's the menu special. "Well you need looking after. There's bad boys around."He takes her by the shoulders and steers to her to a big wide armchair in the corner of the sitting room. She's almost giddy at the warmth of his big, strong hands and the pace that things are moving.He pats the chair seat. "Best seat in the house. Coke? I'll get you an Iowa special."It's full house now. People are. Sadly, it had taken himfar too long to realize there was actually something he could had doneabout that, and so he approached forty no further along toward being awoman than he had at twenty.Mostly, his girl self lived online, in chat rooms and especially fictionsites. He (She, really) wrote poems and songs and stories, and even kepta blog sharing her inner self with the others who were like her.She just posted a blog entry, trying to keep the self-pity to minimum,but several people sent. Ways.”“We’ll need to keep going. This works in places like this, but if ten of them catch me in the open, they can just throw spears into me until I’m too weak to fight.”She glanced back toward the North, listening. Nothing.Watching her, Farwalker nodded once. “We need to be cautious, the land will level out some as we enter the territory of the Braided Ones. The People have a treaty with them to cross their land for now.”He stopped looking thoughtfully at black clouds on the edge of the sky,.