" I heared mom say from the kitchen.I got up off the couch picking up my still full glass of ice tea and took it with me to the kitchen to sit down to...eat at the table.After getting seated at the table to eat, I watched mom and Martha with their backs to me, as they each picked up a big bowl and plater, with Martha getting the bowl and mom getting the plater of meat, then they turned towards the table with the bowl and plater, my mouth just about dropped to the floor."What's wrong handsome?" my. I know it doesn't sound like much, but we made seven miles that day, and I felt every pebble along the way. Jim had found a little stream for us to camp beside, so we spent the night there and left the next morning for the road.When we reached the road, the two boys spent the rest of the day setting up a permanent camp for Jack and me. It wasn't an elite hotel, but it sure beat bumping along on that travois. The next morning as soon as there was enough light, Jim took off for home with both. The Cleaning Supervisor was an ambitious young female who for some odd reason found the not very handsome fat middle aged Asian irresistible. The offices like most had a First Aid Room which was normally used only during the day Monday to Friday with only one set of spare keys which was monitored by security and had to be signed in and out by authorised people I usually the premises manager, bourse or Cleaning Supervisor and was kept locked at all other times though the site inspector could. ”Jaano says this with such cheerless resignation that I am touched and then, my mind intuitively makes a connection to something else I have recently been told.“Five boys and three girls you say. What were the names of the princesses?”He thinks for a moment and shakes his head as though dislodging cobwebs from his memory.“Veneeta, Haarl-Asha and Raia.”“And which of those three was the youngest?”“Raia…but why does this interest you?”“We of Mentrassanae are a curious folk.”“Aye, a curious race.