He and a good friend of his, Dr. Lampkin had owned the cabin since before I was born. They often took friends there for weekends of poker, and hunting...during season. Last year was my first time to go there hunting and this was the first time I was going there for anything else. I felt special, older I suppose.The cabin wasn't anything special, one big room with cots and bunk beds for sleeping. The kitchen table was a picnic table in the middle of the cabin. But it did have a bathroom and a. She always seemed to be the one to whom they all turned, whether for advice on their amours or clothes or what to do next. When they went camping or gaming in the remoter areas, it was usually Pru's suggestion of where to go that caught their imaginations.'I can't think how many times we went out to Wadi Felucca to fool around back then. Now, it's some kind of hideout for bad guys.' She shook her head and grinned. 'We used to play war games against the boys ... mostly so we could lose and let. " Swimming?" Rhonda raised a skeptical eyebrow. "When do you go?" After work. Sometimes early in the morning. The municipal pools open at six."This part, at least, was true. She had begun to swim almost daily, though only on Makeeda's middle-of-the-week off days with her, since their schedules did not permit otherwise. Not at six, though, when Makeeda was still asleep, angelically enfolded in Laura's protective arms. Laura had thought of going at six but had not got around to it yet. She could. Not only did those dogs represent the future, they were her dogs. Well, and Josh's, too, but she was responsible for them. She'd protect them, if she could.If they'd let her.She thought about taking a couple of the pups off of their necklines, and hooking them to the bike, but decided in an instant, she'd better not; they could get under the wheels, and it wouldn't make things any better. She could scoop up a couple and carry them in one arm, riding the bike with the other, but then she.