Ever since the depraved incident on that one Sunday morning at dawn, the platinum engagement ring that I was still wearing on my left hand seemed to b... burning rings of guilt around my finger. I should have just taken it off until I felt entitled to wear it again, but it was so beautiful, and I was still so hopeful that things would work out. Suck it up and deal with it Kylie , I told myself. This might be uncomfortable, and humiliating, but it was a necessary evil if I was to ever hope for a. . nevermind”“Oh, Clive! Surely not finding a good book better than sex? Oh, dear.” She was laughing. Once more, old hands at the camp looked up at the barking laugh. They were finding it hard to get used to a jovial leader. In past years some had nicknamed her Stalin. There was no doubt the camp was still well-run, enjoyable and valuable. Now it was happy. Happy was not a description that would have arisen before. Morning talks even covered subjects like being nice to each other, looking out. It definitely doesn’t lead back to the quarry.”“That’s good news. If there is still anyone living in a cabin, we should be able to find them,” David said. “Well done, son. Crew.”“If it weren’t for the risks of missing something completely, we’d have gone out tonight,” Jessie said. “It gets dark out there a lot sooner than where it’s clear. Not to mention it’s extremely spooky. Since they found the grave, the sheriff wants to make sure we are alert to manmade dangers along the trail.”Both Gee. Two strange beings were here. They were pink, carbon-based, and had five appendages each, though the one on top was bulbous. As Szx'ee and Wantu'u watched, one of the beings elevated themselves with their lower two appendages and moved to a cabinet, extracting two metal cylinders with its side appendages. It then returned to the other being, reclining onto a long stuffed object as it relinquished possession of one of the cylinders to the other. They were pointed toward a box in the corner.