"Since you're here with friends is it alright if I join you? Eli's friends are a bit young for me." Are you saying I'm old?" she laughed."God NO! I'm ...sorry if I said that wrong. It's just that I'm twenty-four and Eli and his friends are all around nineteen." I'm twenty-five," replied Mary. "My friends are all in their early twenties. You're welcome to join us if you like." I smiled at her and picked up the drinks she had ordered and walked to meet her friends."Damn! Mary, where did you find. It was January and February of ’89 when I went to basic and it was cold with several snowstorms during our training. One day while we were scouring the company area for cigarette butts – yeah, scrape aside the snow with your boot and lean down to pick up butts and any other trash – the first sergeant called us together and asked if anyone was interested in seeing a movie about the airborne in the post theater. I didn’t really know anything about the airborne but getting out of the cold sounded. So to make it a bit interesting ,i told “dad,she is my lover now”.he did not make any pretentions before asking “is it ok for me to be her lover too”.he had a genuine look on his face saying he also wanted to make his daughter happy.i told”on one condition,if u let me be ankitas lover”ankita is my mom she is a manager in a tailoring firm,and at 42 she is very firm,know what i mean.dad assured me that her will talk her in to it. That evening me sandy and dad left to our farm house in a place. She couldn’t remember the last time she had ever thought of it or even prayed, but now seemed like a good time.“God, you did not answer my pleas when I was first captured, but please, help me. Bring them back, Lord, please. I don’t want to lose them,” she said, crying for the first time in a long time.“They aren’t coming back…” Marian tearfully whispered, once again waking up alone.It had been a year since the dragons had hatched and it was now clear that they had left the nest for lives of.