I think you’ll like my studio, and it is the one place in the house that she never goes.” Her smile broadened as I led her to the staircase that l...d up to the second floor art gallery and studio I had thought would allow me to make a living; it hadn’t, but I still draw, do photography and sculpt from time to time when the muse drives me to such creative means. When we got to the top of the stairs it was nicely warm, we stepped past the half bath’s entry to the door and I swung it open to reveal. They tied their horses and mules in a picketline near their camp to keep them close. With all their camp supplies and saddles around the main fire, they also circled their travois’ between them and their mounts.“Lets go out in pairs again and pile limbs and sticks all around our camp for now. We’ll light them later, then keep all of them stoked until its too dark to be safe out there. All of us need to stay close together after dark – no matter what happens,” Eli told them as he looked around,. And that time had now come… What she was truly running away from was the decision she knew she had to make now that the agreed upon ultimatum had been reached: the kids were going to college this fall. She mentally avoided the excruciating exercise to reminisce some more of her not-so-far-away youth. She smiled as she remembered a time when her body was the stuff of legends. She was far from a less beautiful now, but she no longer had the same confidence in her charms. In more ways than one. “Confused yet?”“A little! How did you know?”“Your foot tapping got a little weird there!”“It’s a weird beat, I think.”“You’ll get used to it,” she whispered, patting my leg.Even Lara had stopped, and Aongus was leaning in, moving his hand. He was counting to three with his fingers, I noticed. I said the numbers in time with his hand movements, and slowly it started to make a little more sense. It still felt a little drunken, but by the time I thought I might just be hearing it, Tommy called out.