It felt good to be next to her. We didn't have to have sex. She needed rest and unconsciousness more. I awoke in the morning to a tiny hand shaking my...shoulder. Claire's four year old daughter, Moira, held her finger to her lips when I looked at her. "Aunt Cathy, I spilled the milk," she whispered. I threw on her mother's bathrobe, accompanied her to the Kitchen, and cleaned up the spill. She was making cereal for her and her sister. Claire came in as I finished and smiled sheepishly at me.. The lodge had wi-fi, which seems ubiquitous these days, though I had to call down to the desk for an access code. It seemed they didn't want day-trippers sitting around in the lobby and piggybacking on their system. Struck me as a little on the curmudgeonly side, since a few extras wouldn't affect their bill and wouldn't take up enough band-width to make any never-minds, but it wasn't unusual; businesses can get awfully proprietary about allowing only paying customers to use their stuff.First. "I didn't let Mom respond because I knew she didn't completely understand."Look asshole, I may be fat, but at least my face doesn't look like thereceiving end of some pimp beating on his hoe every other night. I'mactually smart enough to stay away from trouble." I was referring toLuke's black eye and a couple of bruises on his cheeks.Kylie, who was probably waiting for the perfect moment to talk about hisinjuries, finally spoke up. "You fought with them again, didn't you?"She had a crush on. Gloria and Matthias Renauld. They were settlers here when Prodosia was a new colony,” Alex stated.“And had a different name, too. I know them, or more to the point, I know of them. They are the leaders of a very successful group of scavengers and thieves out in the lands beyond Tanith’s Gully,” Min stated. Seeing the group’s confusion, Dagan opened his mouth to speak, but Inari beat him to it.“Yes, there are groups of people who live out in the wastelands of Prodosia. Many of them eschew life.