Are you coming to see me on business or is this about our party in Jackson?” He was laughing like hell, but I knew when I see him tomorrow, he won�...�t laugh - for a few years at least.“This is some business I need to speak to you about in private. I have to be at the courthouse anyway, and I’ll come by your office about that time.”“Josey, this sounds serious. You’re not in any kind of trouble are you?”“Oh, No Sir. It’s not me that’s in trouble, but I thought you should know what I learned today. In the Desert, on a hot sweltering afternoon, the sun literally bakes the Earth’s crust. An unclear horizon lay in ripples of distorted reality. In a land thought to be too hot to live in, illusions dance with highway heat waves. Sand and dust swirled in an upward curl behind the vehicle along the roadside as it drove across the asphalt pavement. Hot tar resembles the sound of a rain-wet road as the tires gyrate through the black soup. Like a still Black River on a gray highway, the tires rode. When is there time and or opportunity to even see a girl, much less have her be your girlfriend? And we don't want to talk about the arranged marriages among the water clans. The thing is, I'm bored zipping around the dunes with my droid and hunting rifle. I had enough of that as a teen. When it's the only entertainment, it gets old fast, and like most other guys my age, the very idea of women grows in our minds so much, a day may come when you decide to actually stay on at home for the fact. He still didn't speak German, so he sat quietly as Lorraine and the young woman conversed briefly. Lorraine lay down beside the woman, and drew her into her arms. She then looked at Steve, and said. "Her name is Anna Heim. She lost her husband about three months ago, in a work accident. She was four months with child at the time, and until she woke here, the pregnancy was normal. Now her baby is gone, and her heart is broken again. I fear for her sanity."Steve grew angry again at the woman's.