Steve lived on a farm with a very long driveway, you couldnt see the house from the road at all. As we took the last turn to the driveway we could see... the house. It sat on a huge open plot of land just as you would expext a farm. they had several barns on the property. one for a****l, tools, supplies and who knows. When we got to the house and jumped off the wheeler, steve and his father came straight out. steve was a bit bigger but noticiably behind on the growth spurts compared to phil. -pop-those-pantys-r-kelly' is about to become, or be a jail-bird, I mean like, excuse my language, &/or pardon my French, I mean if that member of a 'clown-posse' wasn't going to enjoy that being of his freedom in a much more socially-acceptable kind of way then he himself may as well have just stuck his wrists out for the iron, or steel bracelets a.k.a. handcuffs since day one than to be possibly wasting that being of the American taxpayers' money, & whereas this one big 'palooka-joe-jerk'. Instead, he wore clothes nearly as fine as the ones Father wore when they had guests.So, he wasn’t a messenger, then. Corec’s tutors were prone to testing him about anything unusual that happened, so he tried to think of who the visitor might be. A rich merchant might dress in clothing like that, but was unlikely to ride alone through the mountains. Any baron besides Lord Tammerly would have brought a retinue with him. Perhaps it was the son of a baron?Mr. Melvin came into the room then,. Veronica had woken him and Iris a few nights ago to show them where the control room was and how to work the control board. He took a seat on one of the simple armless swivel chairs before he fired up the surveillance system. She had also told them not to let the younger siblings and cousins in on the secret just yet. Ed and Dahlia would be told when they started attending boarding school next year, assuming that they got in.Dahlia had perfect marks and an impressive extracurricular record. Ed.