My ankle still hurts a bit, but..." The rope is just loosening. If we can get some more, I can re-wrap the handle on. No real problem."She let out a s...gh, hand touching his."Thank you." No problem," Liuz repeated. He pushed the crutch back towards her. She took it, careful to maneuver it around both him and Kasia. The end passed an inch over his sister's sleeping head. The two sat silently."I'm sorry you're stuck with us again," Roda finally said. "I know we're a bother." Well, you are a girl.". After class, the team showered but Matt realised what the time was and he had to go to the store before he went home. He headed out the school and got into his truck, as he pulled out of the student parking lot he saw Kera walking home, he pulled up beside her and rolled down the windows. “Hey, need a ride?” she grinned and got in the truck, “Thanks Matt, also I have your sweater still” as she started to take the sweater off Matt stopped her and told her to keep it for gym on the cold days. “I. The princes were secure with this turn of events and even ceased arguing for a while until they heard the sound of tapping.Tap, tap, tap. Went the woodpecker. Tap, tap, tappity, tap tap. On it went for quite some time.Finally the woodpecker returned with a smug, satisfied smile.“Well” asked the princes, “Is the young sapling a Son of a Birch or a Son of a Beech?”“Gentlemen, the sapling is neither the Son of a Birch nor a Son of a Beech.” the woodpecker replied. “For the sapling is a female tree. My husband was stationed to the Indies to command a battery at Kingston in Jamaica. It was as good a posting as we could have hoped for; we had at least avoided some of the worst places, though Canada would have been better. I did not go with him immediately as I was pregnant. The plan was that I should join him as soon as the baby and I could make the voyage. Instead I was a widow, for he caught a fever on the crossing and was dead before he ever reached the Caribbean.Without his pay I had.