I look to Brighde. ‘Dawn.’ she murmurs. The thirteenth day. I hold my swollen stomach as another contraction hits. Brighde furrows her warm bro.... ‘I see it!’ someone shouts in Gaelic. ‘New York!’ A cheer goes up, everyone talking and shouting and praying to their God in different languages. Soon, the ship stops, and men come in from ashore. They will not let us depart. They line everyone up, go around to each person checking out eyes, looking in our mouths, and feeling for a temperature.. “He’s gone to check the upper fields,” Sophie said, guessing who I was hoping to see. “Is this who I think it is?”I nodded, “This is Julia, she’s Ali’s daughter.”“And Uncle Ben’s,” Abigail added.“Yeah, and mine, too,” I acknowledge. I offered Pete the bottle of wine, and he placed it on the table.Pete said, “So, Ali’s here! This is the same Ali, who if we dared to mention her name you would jump down our throats?”“Yep.”“Care to elaborate?”“Nope.”Husband and wife looked at each other and burst. I could tellbecause, even though I had brought one of the bags that the gym providedto all of its members, the one in my locker was a different style to theone that I had, hell, even the colour was different. Hesitantly I openedthe bag up, enough so that I could see, but so nobody else could. InsideI saw, predictably enough, not my own clothes, but the uniform of thelocal high school. That would not have been too bad by itself, had itbeen the males uniform. It wasn't. It was the female's school. He was in a happy mood, after the bumpy start, his hard work was showing results. He usually enjoyed the people-watching, but on this rather cool evening, the few people in the park were exiting. Just as well. He never minded his own company. His eye was caught by a solitary figure on the far side of the fountain. He was rather surprised to see a lone woman, they were taught to walk with a friend or large dog. This woman had neither. What she did have was long, shiny strands of reddish-brown.