She took that as an insult, and well, maybe it was. Anyway, I apologized and all was forgotten. After an hour or so, we went back up to the house and ...eeded to shower off. The salt water, unlike the pool water, makes you itch terribly as it dries. I got to the shower first, but Zoe insisted that she needed to shower with me, because the itches were making her crazy. Zoe joined me in the shower. Now, common sense dictates that when you are showering salt off you and your swim suit, you get in. You have to have an open door policy, allowing people access to you. Ideas come from below, and you need to be able to sift through them, gleaning the useful, separating good ideas from the rest. People need to put a human face to who they are working for. I consider that a large portion of my duties to the company." Joyce and I both realize it's necessary, we just don't want to be the ones to do it. Joyce can handle almost all the rest of it, but she likes having other people to bounce her. Fire Bringer wanted to do what he could to alleviate the conflict.Fire Bringer could have jumped by TP to anyplace he wished, by now, but he feared falling out of touch with the people he was trying to help if he didn't travel the way they did. Ada had run afoul of a rattlesnake, so he no longer had that friend with him; he regretted that accident many times, but he had not been able to save her. Fire Bringer now "carried" all of his supplies in his secret hiding place that he didn't. She stood as I entered the exam room, extending a hand along with a friendly warm smile. Her face radiated warmth. Her body language told me of her courage and personal integrity. She was a full six foot two inches tall, large boned with pronounced facial features of her pure bred eastern Africa -American heritage. She was Hershey chocolate brown black and as regal as any English queen. She spoke with an educated Virginia accent and with the self assurance of her southern aristocracy heritage..