Arlene took over. "You don't mind do you, Sammy. Jacky will tell you what needs to be done and probably how to do it too. Randy, I have to complete a ...ale on my computer. Would you like to see how I handle it?" Yes, I would." Johnny, could you get something for Jacky to eat? When we get free, we'll get Sammy and Randy settled into their rooms." An hour latter we trooped upstairs and started putting clothes away. Jacky was bouncing on the beds when we went into each room, making it difficult to. “I’ll just have an orange juice. Thanks.”“Okay,” said Mia, slightly to Mo’s surprise. He watched her go and join the scrum at the bar. It felt wrong that a girl was going to the bar instead of a guy, but as she’d said this way there was less chance of them all being thrown out.Mia got to the bar and started to ease her way in between two big guys, who had a little gap between them because they were friends and partly facing each other. They detected her scent, saw her bare shoulder and moved. At first I believed that it’s origins were magical in nature but now I am beginning to suspect it is simply a technology beyond anything in my experience. To what end, her tests, I have no clue, and admit to curiousity. After all, I have evolved into a creature that is singular and unique. Today she gifted me with quill and ink and a leather bound book full of empty pages which I endevour to fill with my thoughts lest they, too, are lost to time. It has become a struggle to write, constantly. It would probably been okay, but she had not seen the cattle grid over the bonnet of her clapped out Ford Escort. The first part of manoeuvring had gone fine. Going forward was never a problem to her, but reversing always caused her some anxiety. She managed to get a tyre stuck fast between two bars of the grid, bending one a little to allow the tyre to pass through. It was terrible luck really, but seemed to happen to her every time she selected the reverse gear. Something would always happen,.