I neverknow how long it?s going to be. Mother checks her messages on her phonefor a minute or two, and then let?s me get back up.Mother gives me a li...tle smile. I live for her approval. She dismissesme with a playful swat to my rear.I return to the kitchen and begin serving my sisters who are sitting atthe kitchen table. They are joined by Valerie and Mother. Hepzibah isfeeding Syntyche in the kitchen. Sissies don?t sit at the table aroundhere, we serve the table. They chat amongst. She said nothing, although everyone she saw believed she was just about to speak, perhaps even to say their name…And then, as quickly and mysteriously as she’d come, she was gone. Only the slightest stirring of autumn leaves marked her departure. But they all felt different now that they’d seen her, like a veil they hadn’t realized they were wearing had been pulled away from their eyes at last. The night looked brittle and beautiful. Chann exhaled. Everyone else did too. In fits, the party. I had gotten directions from the tax collector, and we left early. We traveled for most of the day, but took a long break for lunch to let the children run around, and let the mules rest.The tax collector had said that he thought it would take us seven or eight days to make the trip. We camped out the first two nights and then stayed in an inn the third night.I found out that we were about five more days from the lord's town.We were able to stay in inns the rest of the way, since the. Shannon is also pregnant, but to her brother, Jamie. That impregnation occurred in the Tudor’s Biscuit World. So far, that’s all that I’ve observed, but I have no doubt that more will come,” the spirit informed us, making both Angel and Christina grin at this news.“That does it! I’m flushing out my pills now!” Deanna announced, stalking off to do so while Lisa, Michelle, Missy, Erin, Mary, and Jennifer all joined in this activity.“I already did so while Dan was busy buggering Shawn, in fact!”.