"This is most excellent tea, Ambassador Jon'a-ren. I recognize the blend. It is from my native island in Indonesia." Yes, Mr. Secretary. We were very ...leased to find a shop here in the city that specializes in imports from around your planet ... or, should I say in more suitable words ... from around the world. I should also mention that I ... we Masi'shen ... find tea to be a most unique and delicious beverage. We have nothing like it on M'shai'dur, our home world. I speculate that if we send. A few minutes later Melanie returned.“The lumberjack,” said Rina.“Me too,” I said. “Over medium on the eggs.” Rina nodded her agreement with me on the eggs. We always seemed to be able to read each other's minds and agree on the same kinds of choices and things. She was twice the wife that Abigail ever was or could be. The best part was that I was certain that she would never leave me, and I sure as hell would never leave her.We were hungry so, so far there was not a lot of conversation while. Is she… Excited? I think to myself as I once again glance at Nayima; and sure enough, I catch her looking at my crotch and nervously rubbing her thighs. I’ve seen her do this once before; that night three days ago when we accidently saw one of the village couples having sex. It was after that I started having those dreams, and although Nayima had acted naturally afterwards, it appears she was just as affected as I was.“Can I ask you something personal, Koran?”Nayima startles me when she breaks. She knew Bimi would have laughed if she saw what Clara was about to do, but it was going to be a long, dangerous mission, and she needed all the strength she could get. Deviating from the course she knew led to the clearing, she headed deeper into woods, to the very thick of it. When she saw the patches of valdir, she knew she was close. Turning, she spotted what she’d come for. The heart tree was large and gnarled, its branches twisting and turning over the top of one another, but it was still.