“All set?” she asked.“Yep, let’s go.”Noah and Valia resumed riding through the wilderness, eventually managing to exit the valley. Continuin... west, they moved on and off the road whenever needed. Monsters occasionally attacked, but the two had enough strength and skill to handle any threat. Finally, with the sun setting, they turned their attention to finding a place to make camp. They came across the remains of an ancient settlement, just one of countless others scattered across the land. The. Apparently her husband doesn’t know about her trips to the ranch, other than they are for the ladies where they swim, play tennis, golf and go horseback riding. Really I think he is indifferent to what she does and just turns a blind eye to her activities. On the other hand Kathy has her husband’s permission to have extramarital relations and he even encourages her to do it. He likes hearing about her exploits in detail and it arouses him enough so they have good sex together. Weird huh, but. I did get the name of their leader. He was Lord Howard, Prince of the North Isle. I’d have to ask after him, the next time I ran into some pirates. And I thought about inviting the prisoners to join my crew, when I was ready to take the Wrong Place out to sea.It would be a while before I trusted them, but they were skilled if inexperienced sailors, and they certainly knew the ship. Many navies on Earth had pressed landsmen from the nearest tavern to fill out their numbers, but they also had. “How did Megan find her?” I asked.“I was in the office and saw her doing research on something for Caryn. I asked her if, when she had some free time, she would be willing to do some research for me to find anything out about where my mom was. She found her on a missing-persons website in Canada,” Lily said.“We went there, and they gave us the information about Phoenix. The people that live in our old house told us she had gone to LA,” her brother provided.“Megan got on one of those online.