Cindy came in about 10 minutes later and handed him abottle filled with Kool-aid. He pulled out his pacifier and starteddrinking his bottle. He placed...his dummy on the coffee table andgrabbed the bottle with two hands like he was taught earlier. He wasthirsty and gulped it down as fast as possible.Phil faired better on the test this time, mostly easy stuff. Cindyhanded him his school books and gave him a couple hours to study. Whilereading up on the Civil war, Phil wet his diapers. He knew. I want you in one of those tee shirts before we leave.”“Master? What if he won’t agree? How far do I have to go?” She whispered in my direction.I held my hands apart as if saying she had better not fail. I knew she could be pretty persuasive. “Then don’t fail, Honey. It looks like your lucky day anyway. He looks okay too. Imagine if he’d been old and fat and you had to make the deal?”I moved to the corner and pretended to look at some of the more generic shirts for sale, leaving my wife in her. He was amused at how the guy was gushing about his wife. But he sensed a hint of something there - almost as if Mark was trying to convince himself he was worthy of such a hottie. Still, he kind of liked the kid."So," he said, leaning back to his side of the bar. "Where's home?"The bartender wandered over and smiled sweetly, asking if they needed anything else."Grab us both one more beer," Tom answered. "This man is about to tell me about his wife." Minneapolis," Mark said back. "And thanks.. Looking closer at the flasks and retorts on the bench, she was pretty sure the rubber tube had once fed water from the faucet into a water purifier of some kind. The large flask with the remnants of the tubing certainly looked like some sort of filter. She could probably fix it with a tube from a blood pack or something similar. There was a collection of jars with labels on that contained things like dried mushrooms, preserved bloodbug glands, venom sacs, and various seeds and dried plants..