Mom and I made some ham-and-cheese sandwiches, then she gave me some marching orders - get cleaned up! It was the full nine yards, shower, shave every...hing - and I do mean everything - and douche and enema! I was to get everything ready for a fun party.Mid-afternoon I wandered back into Mom’s room, now wrapped in my bulky terry robe, to find her sorting through her closet. “I told you, Mom, I’ve got our outfits for tonight covered.”She looked over at me in surprise. “You didn’t get those. How many more rabbits were hiding in the bottom of her hat? Several sisters, a few dressed in aprons and nothing else, were busy fixing the Colony's midday meal. Lunch consisted of the remainder of last night's venison stew, freshly baked bread, and a garden salad. The food looked and smelled as delicious as the naked backsides of the kitchen crew.I didn't realize how hungry I was until I took a bite of the warm bread. The next ten minutes passed without conversation as we consumed lunch in. "That looks like a worm stinger..." Julie said."Yes, that's exactly what it is." Cassie said. "Gabby has been busy at the lab in the hospital, experimenting with worm venom."She's been transforming the venom into a worm repellent."She's been making an ointment out of this stuff with the the stingers removed, and, if you put it on yourself, you're protected, the worms don't attempt to infect you"Gabby gave me this unprocessed venom so that we could try the real thing." So this is just straight. "He turned his eyes on the children.Robby found his voice. He was amazed by all he had heard, and had been content just to listen. But now he spoke."Our lives have been wonderful." he said. "I hardly remember my father. We have no complaints at all!" This is wonderful for me to hear." said their newly discovered uncle. "Perhaps I have spent too many years with people who had to struggle every minute to make their lives bearable. I know I felt as if I were more blessed than possible when I saw.