As they backed up and went to another intersection, Melissa asked, "What was that?" It is a dangerous dead area." Teacher responded."What is in that d...ngerous dead area?" Melissa asked."It is unknown. Therefore it is dangerous."Melissa and Mark both filed that bit of information away for further consideration. Perhaps Teacher was not quite so omnipotent, or as omniscient as Melissa and Mark believed him to be. She reminded Mark of her earlier disclosure about Teacher's damaged and destroyed. Then he loaded the dogs in the car and climbed in with them.Melissa drove up the hill, parked and then watched Leon place a collar on Luke and Alexandra and attach leather straps from their collars to the sled. Then she helped load Eric onto the sled. A few minutes later they were at the cabin.“Just get him to the bed and I can take it from there,” Melissa said.Leon helped a half-unconscious Eric onto his feet and walked him into the house. Melissa got on one side and with Leon on the other. He asked me to come stay with them.Me: “Hey, you’re already in a 1 BHK, how can I crowd you guys?”Ali: “Macha, we three anyways sleep in the hall and the bedroom is only used for..” (and he winked at me)I laughed. Aaesha: “Shut up Ali”. We all laughed.Me: “So if I come in, where will you go for that? The bathroom?”Aaesha: “Shut up guys. You’re both unbelievable”. She stood up and said something outrageous, “The bathroom is very small for that “ and winked at me and went to the kitchen. We all. He broke the kiss, gave her thigh a gentle squeeze, handed her the reins and walked to Cajun and mounted up. They rode out down the trail and went home, riding side by side when the trails were wide enough so they could hold hands. Ariel looked at Jack and said, "Thank you for such a wonderful weekend, Jack. I will never forget it." I wouldn't want you to forget it ever, baby. I enjoyed it just as much as you did, love. We'll have many more weekends like this ahead of us, you know. We just have.