"So that was agreed.Without seeming to be in a rush, Julie led us over to the carts. She led us along the beach and turned inland where there were ext...nsive palm groves."I'd like to put in 15 to 20 cottages along here," she enthusiastically told us. "Where it's more open, I want to plant a lot of the local flowering shrubs, and maybe some hibiscus ones, to provide both beauty and more seclusion." That's another great idea, Julie," remarked Dewey, as he glanced around. "You're really on a roll. I thought he was driving down from Fort Wayne, but it turned out he’d driven to and stayed in Louisville Wednesday evening. We hadn’t started yet and anticipated another run-through before he got to the camp. Riko and Riley took care of getting him checked in with credentials and Donna brought him to the fire where we were still cleaning up from breakfast.“John, I’d like you to meet my pod and our company of performers,” Donna said. I saw John’s eyebrow shoot up but he didn’t say anything.. I grabbed the musket jabbed at my belly and yanked the big Brit to me, smashing his nose with my forehead and his stones with my knee. He let go of his weapon, and I clubbed down the other man with it before he could get turned around, in fact he still had the girl’s coat in his hand when I broke his skull open along his brow ridge.She struggled loose as he fell and then watched me bash the other man’s head to pulp with the butt of his gun, crushing it like a pumpkin. Then she vomited, bending. I can hear you through the wall, taking care of Madagascar.”Madagascar?“Madagascar sort of looks like your you-know-what, right?” she explains, forgetting to keep pinning me down, as my you-know-what’s pretty feelable.She grins like the Queen of Yakutsk. “No worry, though. Allies don’t need to protect our borders with each other.”After that, sometimes in the middle of a game she mentions Madagascar and gives me a look. Or maybe it’s not a look at all, just something I imagine, but in any case,.