Yours forever,CharlotteWow. I stood there re-reading the thing a couple of times and finally put it down. I sat in the seat at the head of the table a...d lifted the cover from a platter in front of me: steak, medium rare, exactly the way I'd ordered it when we'd gone out for dinner. She'd remembered. Next to that, vegetables, baked potatoes, salad, gravies and sauces in little silver boats that looked kinda like Aladdin's lamp. There was wine too. Real wine, and it looked absolutely top quality.. I killed a third and the last began backing away.I killed the last one and slowly moved closer to the water. I checked around the spring and then knelt to skin the four snakes before bringing the drama closer. The male nudged the snake bodies to the female and she hissed softly before snatching them up. I let the drama drink and filled my water bottles before mounting again. It was an hour before I stopped against the side of a ravine.I unsaddled and fed the drama dried meat before having them. Maybe this was sign of a good day to come.She sat down on the bed next to me. "I'm going shopping after breakfast, so I'll be out until about mid-afternoon. What are you doing today?"I hadn't got anything planned so I said "Not much. I might go out later and meet up a few friends, but that won't be till late afternoon, if I manage to get hold of someone on the phone. Why?" Oh, I just wanted to plan our sessions for today," she said, looking at me hard in the eyes. "As I've got a bit more time. "I am going to work out in the gym in a little while, can you join me?" she asked.I handed her one of the FedEx packets, "You read this and I will the other, and then I will join you," I replied.The one I opened was from Captain Peterson from the Rochester police department. It had been a month since we were there and I was beginning to think my initial thoughts on the problems there were correct, that the city would do nothing.I was wrong - they were just slow. I read the two page cover.