“Evans residence.”“Willy? This is Gordy.”“Hey! How are you?”“Surviving. Maybe better than that. I’m in your neighborhood, in a sense. ...re you busy this weekend?”“I don’t think so. I assume Evans will drown worms and I might cruise somewhere.”“And the litter?”“Scott’s at Recruit School; Olwen’s at UNE.”“Oh my. I was in Armidale last week!”“And where are you now?”“Port Macquarie. But I thought I might head in your direction.”“Wonderful! Tomorrow?”“No, that’s impossible, my LandRover is being. But we walk right past both restrooms and continue down the hallway, around a corner, and to a door that's been left barely cracked. This is either supreme luck or you've planned this. Either way, I’m not going to complain.We enter through the doorway and find a small storage room. Freestanding shelves line each wall. There are small crates and large cans on every shelf. Bar supplies, I note to myself before I hear the door close and lock. The sound of the music outside turns in to a dull thump. It is the one that usually asks us to do things when there are many other of the creatures near.I think I am right that the other creatures come to watch. I do not know why they wish to watch, but I think it is what they do.The smaller of the two creatures is with us more often when there are no other creatures near, or fewer of them. That one often makes noises to us. It seems to wish us to make such noises too, and it is pleased when Kitik does so. Kitik tells me it would please this one if I. His sisters were here too; one who gave up her life in his defense, and the other slain while she slept.Sighing, Aaron looked up and kissed the sealed coffin and briefly touched the sarcophaguses of his two sisters, lingering a moment longer at Ariel's."I will avenge your death, sister," Aaron stated with finality and stepping back he turned to where the captain stood respectfully."Family is important to you is it not, Your Highness?" the captain asked."It is all anyone has when everything else.