I shake my head as does Deanna. "Too much to change, and face it, maybe 5 songs we could pull off like that, everything else requires all of us." We'd...developed a pretty good set, and we'd worked damn hard at getting tight and polished. Now Becky's betrayal was going to hurt us, big time. You bail on a big gig, kiss any hope of getting more of them goodbye.Deanna is lost in intense concentration."Earth to Deanna, come in Deanna!" I call.She looks up with a smile. "I have the answer.. It’s not so much that there was a capital, but it was more of a spiritual center. Each of the islands had their own clans and tribes, and everybody tended to fight each other. Still, Haka Nuva was where they came to settle things afterwards.”“Huh.”“And that’s why you are here, to help with figuring that out,” he finished.“I’ll see what I can do to help,” she said, smiling back at him.Once they left the main road, they turned and began climbing up into the mountains that formed the center of the. Hazel, almond shaped eyes. High cheek bones. Short, broad nose. Round face, with flawless skin. I stood 5’4 and very fit for my age. I wasn’t muscular, but I was tone. Many guys thought I was very attractive, but I was never attracted to them. I’m a in the closet lesbian, God forbid anyone besides my sister found out.My family is wealthy. I never had to worry about anything. We lived in the middle of nowhere, but the house was huge. I had my own room that was the size of a 2 bedroom apartment.. African Methodist Episcopal was as close as most black folks came to that. Mind you, right after the Civil War, there were more than a few of us, at least in places like Virginia, but that changed in time. I remember the Eucharist story about Robert E. Lee leading the way in sharing Communion with a black man, kneeling together for the sacrament. That story would ring a bit false if very few of us had been Episcopalian back in those days,” Wendy noted with some amusement.“So, you two had a lot.