The owner appeared out of the house and Hugh started raving on about calling the police and having the dog destroyed.I had really had enough of Hugh b... this time and I informed him that if he tried any such thing I would join with the owner and have him arrested for being drunk and disorderly, criminal damage etc. and accuse him of having attacked the dog to start off with.Hugh now perfectly sober simply strode off in a rage.The owner of the dog thanked me and invited me in. Over a hot drink he. I regained my balance and told mom to get back into the sleeping bag for a while because it was all ice, out here, and I had to make a trail so she wouldn't slip and fall.I lifted my foot and stomped down hard on the ice. The soft ground under it hadn't frozen so the ice cracked. The second stomp broke it and I spent the next ten minutes stomping a path down and away from where the tent was pitched. I stomped out a larger area, at the end of the path, because I knew that mom would need a little. "I'm a member there. I used to live there for a short time, but she doesn't know anything about that."Whenever we would tell this story together, my soon-to-be next ex-girlfriend would interject, "And these two start bantering back and forth like they've known each other all their lives."I turned to her in the middle of the conversation and said, "By the way hunny, I'm a nudist." (my pet name "hunny" is spelled like that in honor of my boy, Winnie the Pooh).What she had forgotten was her nanny. Nearby, Nurm stood talking to three strangers."Lyssa, would you come over here, please? I want you to meet Holmar, Kolmar and Aindal. They're from the town to the north, they call it Harbor, that trades with Chakcha City. We met them on their way to the city, and invited them to come and visit with us for a while." Captured us, you mean." Holmar grinned goodnaturedly. Taller than the other two, and heavyset, his gray eyes were almost on a level with Nurm's blue ones. "But I'm glad you did. We.