“What are you men gonna do with all that money? I know you’ve already thought of a hundred things you could buy,” Eli said, looking at Little El... with a grin.“Well, we sort of wanted to give it to you and Jon David to put back so we could buy some ranch land for each of us to have when we get old enough.”“Eli ... I’m proud of all you men. More proud all the time, and now you’ve gone on a hunt by yourselves and killed food for the family and you’ve even found yourselves some outlaw loot and. ’ Mom paused, she talked to dad, and then she got back on the phone. ‘We’ll be waiting for you here.’ I went and we talked. As it turns out they never told me because they weren’t sure, but they had a pretty strong hunch. The asylum incident had made the evening national news that year, they remember because frankly it scared the crap out of them. They were on the government list to adopt and they had a biological parent change their mind before me, but from me they didn’t hear anything from. We both knew that dad would go after the leftover meat and probably eat it all before he went to bed that night. Then I scraped the foodstuff off the plates and into the garbage can while mom filled the sink with hot soapy water. She had taught me to stack the dishes for her so that she could wash them most efficiently. Then I got two dry dishtowels out and waited.While I waited I checked out mom just like she had checked me out earlier. She had on a tight pair of blue jeans that fit rather. Some builders remained to take care of the city but most were nolonger needed and returned to their own homelands. The council had taken muchpower of the city and the bureaucracies began to run rampant as the Ubar spenttoo much of his time tending to the temple. The ever loyal slave was becomingworried as she swore to serve her master and yet there were rumors of challengingthe Ubar's rule. Doing the only thing with in her powers she went to the temple of the priestkings and prayed for her.