" I am too, Bob," she said.Things did not get picked up the next day. That was because Lucy got sent on a service call by her boss the next day that r...equired her to go out of town for three days. There had been an "event" at a construction site, involving one of the company's power transfer modules. Apparently some high voltage electricity coursed through components that were only designed to handle a fraction of that. It destroyed tens of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment and the. Just as noon was approaching, his phone sounded an incoming text. Flipping it open, he read the message from Dawn.Lunch?As fast as his fumble-fingers would allow, he answered her.with bells onIt became their habit to text each other about lunch. Rob could hardly wait. When the noon hour finally did arrive, Rob was the first out the door.He pushed the restaurant door closed against the blowing snow, and shook out his cloak as he hung it up. He quickly turned around when he noticed another cloak. We had a few fields in production, but it was our first spring and we had only had time to get a small vegetable garden and a single corn field plowed and planted. With the amounts of rain and snow this valley got, Plank wanted the entire thing built up off the ground by a good four feet, and that meant engineering in ramps and covered swing arm cranes at the top. The main structural work was complete, and it was mostly the fittings and finish work now, and that brought the speed of this crew. I can’t say for sure.”I let it go at that. I thanked the trio and then told the others what they’d told me. I fell back on English so Terry would understand. Sygor and Kim translated for Ozmat.“It’s possible the man knew about the village already,” I pointed out, “but then again he might have just overheard us talking about it. It really doesn’t matter and the fact that he might or might not speak the language doesn’t matter either. I think that if Bob is at the village, one way or another,.