Keeping track of who is related to who is difficult at the best of times, what with the sharing of pleasures being nigh continual and babies simply ar...iving when they do. The forest can be a dark place as well as bright. Predators, sickness and injuries can claim anyone at any time. Thus the tribe must be close. The tribe must be love undiluted. The tribe must remain strong in both heart and numbers.Sa knows all this. Sa wears all this upon her shoulders. She will be chief next. Not because of. Only a few moments later my parents came down the stairs and hugged and kissed us goodbye. Telling us no parties and to be good. "There's money for food on the fridge. Well call you tomorrow," they said as they headed out the door. We ordered pizza and settled in on the couch watching a movie, some horror movie. I shuddered as the serial killer chopped up poor Johnny. I sighed taking a bite of my pizza. When the movie ended I got up to change into some pjs. Climbing up to my room, I heard James. I so want to see Lynch hanging from a tree, not that there were any on Darling Downs, but I'm writing this from a cabin on Freya. The last of the Wadi troops were pulled off Darling Downs this morning. Erica isn't with me. She's being taken to Borneo on one of the corvettes. Our tank as well as Horace's tank are in a transport pod attached to the Peterbilt, a stagecoach class freighter that Freya escorted to Darling Downs so they could get the last equipment off before they abandon the planet.. The only complaint he’d had about Sandy was that she hadn’t liked his chicken. Come to think of it she hadn’t heard Cal say anything bad about anyone. She knew he’d been angry about the way people treated his mother, but he never mentioned anybody by name. Even now she didn’t know who his biological father was. He’d mentioned what he done, but never said anything else. Cripes thought Maureen, what if her dad was his dad? They’d be brother and sister! No her dad wasn’t the type, and besides.