." clearly he was still discombobulated "We can live in the same clothes for a few days. I'm assuming that they are called ultra-lights because they d...n't have a lot of room for payload. We'll take just the bare essentials."Maybe Zeus was getting more 'combobulated' every second, because that sounded like a practical implementation plan. I did not think that 'combobulated' was even a word – but it should be. Its meaning seems clear. It's that state of mind before 'discombobulation' sets in .... "You got somethin' wrong in the head, girl?" Be nice, Danielle," Mr. Reiser said, and I smiled back at him, rubbing my head and wondering if he was giving me permission to fool around with Tom Henry."I am being nice!" I said. "Mercy's the one being mean!" I's thinkin' I's the only one 'round here's got any decency." She ladled some soup into my bowl. "Can't even sit down the table and you's gone actin' like a cathouse villain on a jukebox!" A what?" I giggled."Shush now, we gone say some Grace. I didn't need a world of shit developing so close by every few days. If nothing else I was going to put a stop to that. I was going to keep getting rid of troublemakers until I didn't have any left. I wasn't in the market to be a King, but I sure as hell intended to be a democratic majority of one until things suited me.Sure, I knew we needed children coming and that we'd be better off with some genetic diversification. Well, we'd have some for a while, even if I were the only man around. I. Aw, hell, I'm as big a slut as they are, I guess. I ran off from home for you, so what does that make me."I could feel the tears and bitterness coming on me again, and this time I let him when he got up off the sofa to hold me and console me."You ain't like them at all, Rosalie," he said. "Don't ever sell yourself short like that. You're a hell of a woman, and you're gonna make some cowboy a mighty fine wife someday. But it ain't gonna be me. Hell, I know what I am. I'm a free ramblin' man. I.