...I...know quick...enough....what...you are!" With that she hauled him up by the scruff of his neck and started dragging him towards the tents until...he could walk, then she pushed him in front so she could lead him with a spear she had collected on the way. As they neared the campsite he could see that it was a large trading caravan. Near their huts older panthers and leopards sat counting, weighing, and measure all sorts of materials. They had everything from gold jewelery to dried strips of. While I was pondering THAT little tidbit of information, the doorbell went off. Eric answered it and it was our food. He paid the delivery guy and we all sat down at the table in the kitchen to eat.By the time I had finished, I was feeling considerably better. Hunger makes you cranky sometimes. I had been thinking, all the time we'd been eating. I realized that a lot of my fears had been addressed and satisfied. A lot of my doubts and misinformation had been set right in our conversation that. There was nothing to do but to keep walking and hope that whatever abstraction governs this realm decides she's walked enough.Puyallup, WAAaliyah leaned against the doorway to Fatima's hospital room. Over a day had passed since Kyle had performed the ritual and there were still no changes. Nurse Mindy, his newest concubine bustled about Fatima's bed, making sure the young teen was comfortable while Kyle sat next to Fatima, holding her hand.Kyle tried to hide his disappointment, but Aaliyah. At least, I thought he smiled. It was difficult to tell through his thick, old world mustache. Often, I would idly wonder if there was an alternate universe in his mustache, safe from my world, living among his hair follicle trees. Then I would wonder if they liked pizza, or tacos, for that matter. My mind, when bored, often ran in fixated circles. Darren wiped the beads of sweat off his brow with a smooth flick of his wrist, and said, chuckling heartily, ‘Of course they are! They don’t see.