To focus now on my concern, he has been in a state of the most extremetorpor for much of the last year, since April at least, and perhapsbefore. He h...as, I suppose, a sort of a condition of the nerves, adepression if you will. He has been unable to work, and unable to risefrom bed on the worst of days. He was always a large sort of man, notobese, mind you, but healthy and robust. Now, he eats little, talkslittle, and seems to care for nothing. He lies upon his chaise longue,and gazes at the. There are eight different ways of pronouncing the vowels alone but thankfully the consonants remained constant. It's millenniums older than Sanskrit. In fact, the Sanskrit alphabet is a simplification of the First Speak alphabets.I developed this skill, learning all the various true names of things during my sojourn in the hills overlooking Kojali. Odali insisted that I learn to read and write in First Speak. As I said before, knowing the true names of things is the foundation to magical. Veronica, as the beautiful, doomed and newly kidnapped victim was to be tied to an open air pagan altar, where she would be inspected by her kidnappers, whipped and otherwise tortured, surrounded by twenty or so chanting members of the Cult. What kind of jerk watches stuff like this, she asked herself for the millionth time!At last the whole thing was over! The final scenes of the doomed heroine being tormented on a wild storm-tossed beach had been filmed. Why they had needed to come al this. He (or she) would be able to see the light on the car and they would be here in several minutes. I wondered why they weren't driving out here, then realized they were probably Amish. Well that would be a good thing, they wouldn't have a phone ... unless one of the kids was doing his "going English" thing they did before entering adulthood and deciding to commit to the Amish way of life, or join the "English" community. The kid might have a cell phone. If so he'd have called for help. I'd.