I laughed and said yep. me too. she said I know. She then said are you wondering what she is doing? i said just a tiny bit, as she will tell me all ab...utit wen we leave. she said lets go watch. so we let that room and she walked down a hall and through a narrow corridor and we went into the smallest closet I have ever seen. she stood in front of me and as I closed the door, she lowered a door and we were looking into another room like we were in . there was my wife with the 2 geeks. she said oh. I was the Snow Maid."But she is not gone, Bill," she said, noticing his look of dismay. "She is merely subsumed. She did not die. When we need her, she will give me her strength. And when we need Grandmother's wisdom, it will be there for us."If it makes you easier, think of us as three women sharing one body, two of whom are in deep slumber, but who may be roused if need demands it." And what should I call you?" Bill said, laying his hand over hers. "Snow Maid seems a little awkward." I am. "Alice could I help you clear the table?" I asked."That would be lovely." The answer didn't come from Alice. It came from Jeremy. He saw how I looked at him and added. "Alice would never admit it, but she is hoping you two can become friends." Why of course we can," I said to Alice who smiled at me then at Jeremy. It seemed a little weird, but I put it down to being brought up in a different culture."Good," she said as she led the way into the kitchen. I was holding Jeremy's and my own plate. Meet you at the ship?"Vin waved her her off and turned to go back into the Mercenary Hall. Barring of course anything with privacy and contractual issues the Mercenary Hall had all sorts of information regarding planets and Verses. She didn't find much on the planet that they were going to, but that particular system was reputed to be rich in minerals locked under ice planets.Coming from a jungle planet, ice was rare except during the rare eclipses. Well if she wanted to get away from home, it.