Geoff's parents were killed when they were hit by a road transport as they turned out of their driveway one foggy morning ten years ago. Tess stepped ...from the car. Billy looked at her legs and butt. "Dave, could I talk to you for a moment?" Tess asked then indicated away from Billy. Evelyn asked after the young man's parents to distract him and Tess and Dave took a few steps to shelter in the shade of one of the few trees in the grain collection depot. Evelyn watched as Tess explained to Dave. And he had been living on this wretched boat for months! He still hated it every time the vessel rose and fell with the waves! If he were not a loving father and a silly old man who had become besotted with a girl less than half his age, he would have gone back to shore weeks ago!He recalled those lines from The Tempest. "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything."He reflected, in the midst of his continuing battle with nausea,. ”“You’re not just a pretty face, are you little lady?” I smiled at her, beginning to change my first assessment of her. “Well, this isn’t exactly a farm any more. All the barns have been torn down and these blasted houses keep popping up all over the place instead of miles and miles of uninterrupted corn, cattle, wheat and bean fields. If you’re a horse lover, there’s Rice’s Stables just a few miles south. I’ll put in a good word for you with Marvin and Shirley. They’re always complaining about. Behind me, or in front of me as I was going backward, was a trail of grooves from my knees and my hands. Oddly, neither my knees or hands seemed to be affected by being dragged along the sand.“Where are you going? It isn’t as if I don’t have a life to return to.”He laughed that deep, rumbling, throaty sound. “You relaxed so completely and I wasn’t sure how long you might be like that or how long we might be tied. So, I decided I would try to help you.”“Again, where are you going?”“I don’t know..