And possibly my father." But, ten years later-" she began."Your father, did you say?" Kes said, catching my last words."My father, or his, I dunno, gh...st or specter or whatever, said that he had died 'killing' some kind of demon. This could be that demon," I said."And it's not unheard of, that a murderer returns to the scene of his crime, even ten years later," I added. "And, in any case, he DID threaten us. We need to work together, I don't want this ending up like some crappy horror movie,. That trail mix and jerked meat that we’ve been chewing on all day has left me wanting real food.”The two women agreed with me on that point, so I opened up my pack and I pulled out a ration pack. Good old Army MREs. We had chicken stew for three. Of course before we could eat we needed a fire ring and some wood to burn so we could boil some water.It only took me a few minutes to find all that, and some kindling as well. I just slipped off into the woods that lay but a dozen feet from the cave. Not necessarily wrong ... but not quite right," I said. "What did you do?" A judicious application of modern pharmacology," Seven said."Your modern?" I asked."Well, yeah," she said, "You people won't have anything like this for years."Sarah moaned."David, pick her up," Seven instructed. "Careful of her head. She whacked it a good one." Put her on the sofa," Wendy said."Gently," said Venus. Instructions from a pharmacologically modified 18 month old; just what I need."You know," I told the. She looked at me and then at the pile of clothes and saw the few pairs of hers sitting on top and looked back at me. She squinted her eye slits a little and gave me that "you naughty boy" look. She reached down and picked a pair off the top and handed them to me. Niiiccccceee! I stuffed them into my pocket.Well, I got hard immediately and said I better go and beat off at home. She laughed and said she would love to be there to see that. I said she could do that any time she wanted. She said.