" Hermione will be asked to the Ball by someone else within the next few days, and it will allow you both to develop a long friendship with that perso... which will help to accomplish some of your goals in the future. Also, just because she will not be there with you does not mean that she will not be able to dance with you. By the time we are done with you, there be very few girls there that will not want to take a turn in your arms as you guide them across the dance floor." Who is going to ask. The visitors themselves seemed to also be a mixture of familiar races with small differences such as skin pigmentation and a few other minor details, the biggest differences were the knowledge they possessed, which allowed the peoples of Drear to make such rapid advances in their technology for construction and trade, in fact the currency that is now in common use in Drear is the same coins used it Aurora, meaning that trade could flow between the two realms, albeit in the strange one way. "Well, we're certainly not going back east," she said. "All of my family are dead. If we went back close to Sam's family, they'd want to get involved in our lives and I don't want that. They're all worse than Sam was." Do you have any idea of what you want to do in Oregon?" Millie asked."Not really. Sam wanted to start a farm. I'm not into farming and a woman couldn't do much on her own at farming anyway. I could teach school and that's what I may end up doing."Millie told Pris about the ranch. Judy was waiting at the pod door. "You're back!" Yeah," Ned nodded as he came in, poker-faced."Good! Ellie has been driving me nuts and you need to get her pointed the right direction before..." Judy, shut up." Hey!" Judy glared. "That's no way to speak to..." A concubine?" Ned finished. "What would you know about it?'"I'm your wife!" Judy snapped, "Not some..." You're wrong!" Ned interrupted her, "And you have been for a long time! I've put up with it because we WERE married, but you just keep.