At our marina there was a guy in his forties checking out a cruiser similar to our that was for sale, as we were getting ready he was asking us about ...ow we found Midnight Blue, what she cost to run and how she handled etc. We answered most questions but wanted to cast off and head out, Anne suddenly invited him to join us warning him we were going to Maslins. I was surprised when the guy quickly accepted the invitation saying he was a regular visitor to the beach.The temperature that day was. " It's for his wife. She wants you to recover this." Vinny slid a manila envelope across the table. I reached in and drew out an 8 x 10 glossy of a sapphire cat statue with ruby eyes. "Looks easy enough. Where is it?"Vinny sighed. "That's where it gets complicated, Jane. It's in a small Central American country of El Zanzibar."I purse my lips sourly. "The same El Zanzibar that is currently going through a coup and civil war... I know I'm not gonna like the answer but... where is it?" In the old. She'd stayed with me while we were in the cabins, but now she was a rather old freshman at the University of the South Pacific, taking classes in botany and biology and everything she'd need to save the endangered plants of Hawaii, and maybe the birds too.And I was just bored.Malia had tried to talk me to into joining her at the University. It was a cool idea, kind of. But Gary would have had to, like, pull even more strings to get me admitted than he'd had to pull for Malia. Especially since I. Eventually it was an outright stupor, his vision swimming as prominently as it had in his unusual dream.“Jack? Are you still with me?” Wendy asked at one point. She laughed and snapped her fingers in the air. “You look you're ready to pass out.”“Yeah... just about” he replied, wavering slightly.Wendy smiled and pulled a small book from below the table. She moved her plate aside, set the tome down and opened to a book-marked page.Jack set his elbow on the table and rested his head in his hand..