The young gorilla smelled her, then dismissed her as uninteresting and returned to its mother who was still staring as the others were.The Impasse las...ed for some time; neither side moving or giving anything away. Inscrutable stares continued and looked as if they would become a fixture until a call from the other side of the veiling vines broke the spell. One of the older females answered it with a short bark and a new gorilla entered into the arena of darkness.The Huge silver back who had. "C'mon in, Mom," I call out. You open the door and stop and look me over for a minute. You're wearing your silk robe and you hair is still wet from your shower. You smile at me, clear your throat and begin to speak, "Baby, can I talk to you for a little while?" "Sure Mom, sit down," I say as I sit down on the bed. You sit next to me, place your hand on my thigh and say, "Baby, you're going off to college tomorrow and I really wanted to give you something to remember me by." "What's that. .. I didn't want to cause us trouble." She was sniffling now, on the verge of tears. I did something I hadn't done before and took her hand, which earned me a slight widening of the eyes and a smile. She squeezed my hand gratefully and got herself under control."I know, child. I understand why you did what you did, but we have to do damage control now. I'm not all that upset with you, although we are going to have to have a talk about violence not being the answer to every problem. You've just. I doubt Lorne LePater was much over eighteen years of age but he spoke the sepoys‘ language, whatever it was, fluently and it was clear they respected and admired their young officer.“How long have you been with the regiment?” I asked him. His reply, ‘a little over six months’ astonished me. “You must have picked up the local language very quickly, and you handle your men as if you had command of them for many years.”Lieutenant LePater flushed in embarrassment or pride, or maybe a mixture of.