And yes, I didn't mentionanything of my hypothesis. That was lucky. Even the hard facts were toomuch for the academia. Miss haz-Merin, how old do you ...hink the Karimmasite is?" I can't claim to know. But I'd guess: about five hundred years,perhaps? A thousand at most."Bemariq shook his head. "We haven't been able to analyse the swampy soilyet, but I'm beginning to think the buildings have stood for at leastthree thousand years."I gasped. "But that means..."He nodded. "We are breaking new ground. He was my best friend, and I talked to him for some time. While talking to him, Selena came also came out.I looked at her and smiled while talking. She also smiled back. She came near me and asked who it was. I mouthed it was my friend. I said goodbye to him and cut the call.Me: Why are you outside?Selena: Just came looking for you. You were gone for a while now. I thought you went to talk to your gf. Hehe.Me: Nothing like that, auntie. Just my friend.Selena: Hey… I told you no more,. It had been passed down thru her whole family and now was his. ‘See I still can’t get it to work.’ ‘Son I told you that you would have to train to learn these things. Don’t worry, your day will come. Soon you will be a great fighter and be able to protect everyone from what may come.’ Like she had to do it for her life, she looked up to the sky as if awaiting something. Although the boy didn’t know he would soon meet lots of new people. All of them would not be friendly. *** ‘Come on. That’s. I just hope we see them before the baby comes.”“Raylene, do you really think she’s got a baby coming?”“Well I never saw her washing out any rubbers, so I’m guessing that Paul wasn’t using them or any skins for that matter. Yeah, I’m thinking she’s in the family way.”“It must be nice,” Betty Mae said quietly.“What must be nice?” Mick asked as he walked into the cabin that used to be Paul and Opal Anne’s.“We were talking about Opal Anne,” Betty Mae said. “She told us before they left that she.