I put my arms around her and she snuffled into the fur on my chest "don't put snot on me, I washed that yesterday" I jested. Mum gave a bit of a laugh... "sorry for getting all teary again Peter, the enormity of it all keeps coming back to me." We both fell asleep holding each other.When we woke in the morning we were still cuddled together, I had a raging piss horn so I slid out of her embrace and headed for the bathroom. When I returned after draining the tank my morning wood had deflated to. Just like always, Barris immediately forgot the warnings often printed in the better fanzines. Warnings by heroes like Mandragonne, Spiderboy, Starfall and The Lark; there is no surefire method for becoming a superhero. If you aren't born with powers or haven't the brains to invent something to give yourself an edge against a supervillain, you just have to hope you are fortunate enough to live through some freak accident that ought to have killed you but instead you end up with the ability to. Don’t worry, I too had that vision. It is as White Buffalo Woman taught us long ago: when the buffalo falls without legs and hair, the great waters will cover us.’ ‘But there’s no water nearby. We are surrounded by dry lands and dried creeks. It is so dry the buffalo have gone, so dry the buzzards don’t circle. So where is the water that will cover us?’ ‘Can you count the rain? Can you count the white man? The raindrops fall, a flood is coming.’ Inside the fort, the strange Oglala followed the. . Well, they kind of watch out for Sean." We told Sean as much as we knew about you and that you would be coming today to meet him," Liz explained over her shoulder as she walked down the hall."But, isn't he just over two months old," Martha repeated plaintively."Yeah, how about that?" Ben said with wonder as he shook his head."We know he's very young and we can't understand a word he says, but we're pretty sure he understands most of what we say," Liz explained. "We explain everything to him..