Being able to now jump to the crystal cavern from his own dais when he needed new crystals, wanted to work in his forge room or to do some fossicking ...or some minerals or gems had also made his life so much easier.It amused him how Silver always knew when he was at the cave because she often came to see him within a day or so. He did love catching up with his adopted daughter as he called her.The welfare of the Dragons was after all also his problem.Ricky had gotten into the habit over the. The man had then signaled to his bodyguards and they (having heard the exchange between Jon and their boss) crossed themselves also as they pulled back to leave the room. Jon was still amazed at how much fear Al had instilled in some of the people he met.Al had set him up with a chain of people who had eventually led him to this 'business' deal. Jon found out as he traveled the path set before him that Al had been very busy at other times in his life, and had done a great many 'favors' for some. Rather than the surprise and outrage Kasia had expected from the gathered Watu, there was silence. Chief Ajani did take her hand, bowing slightly. But, then, he had always been more civilized than most. She smiled at him. The King just nodded at the reaction of the room."Now that that's out of the way, to business." He walked to the map table set up. "What do we know?"General Walesa grabbed a wooden pointer, moving it over the map."The main column came within sight just at nightfall, Your. Shaking his head he walked into his bathroom. The quick hot shower sweptout the last cobwebs in his head. Energized and ready for the day hedressed in jeans and a t-shirt and headed downstairs.As he entered the kitchen he stopped dead in his tracks. Freda Preston,the latest girlfriend of his father, sat at the dinner table. She wasreading a newspaper and was wearing his mother's favorite morning robe.Keegan's mind caught up and deciphered the clues. "Morning Mom," hegreeted her. "So you finally.