She returned the kiss with hesitation at first, then, as if she shifted gears, returned it with as much passion as Julie had a few weeks earlier. Todd... pulled his lips away from Meg's and looked down at the blue silk belt that held closed the blue silk robe she wore. "May I?" he asked, as he reached for the loose knot holding it in place. She nodded and Todd untied the knot and let the belt fall to her sides. The robe opened slightly and he reached up to her shoulders, slid it off the back of. . the . . . . the . . . the flame is out!’ ‘Yeah, so?’ ‘Whadya mean ‘so’ I just I. . . .I. . . It means God, Christ is gone from the church! Remember Father Paul said the candle must always be kept lit. Don’t you see what we’ve done?’ ‘We?’ What you mean ‘we’ white man?’ As always Billy is laughing. Billy’s humor is legendary. ‘Cumon man quit messing around. We gotta get this candle lit back up. Don’t ya see, I chased God outta the church.’ ‘Well why donja just light it back up again?’ ‘Gosh do. The stallion I was zeroing in on still looked a little defiant so I left him alone for another day of patience training and concentrated on helping train the trainers.After the ones on the trees were learning their first lessons we loaded the snubbing trees again. I figured it would be the last time. There were still a lot of yearling's and two year olds in the pen, but they weren't old enough to mess with really and when we'd filled the trees again we ran them out of the pen. It didn't take. But that still left a quarter of the compass, and there were lots of options. There wasn't anything much resembling a trail, but I was at enough altitude that undergrowth was relatively sparse and it was comparatively simple to pick my way through the trees.Within minutes I was out of sight of both my cabin and all of civilization, completely immersed in my natural setting. The first time I'd done this, not long after I moved in, I'd incautiously proceeded on for about fifteen minutes before it.