After about twenty minutes, I told her good night. She thought that was special–that I would call her and tell her good night when only hours ago, I... was just another customer at the diner she worked at!But in those hours since I walked into Ethel's a lot had transpired, and neither of us was the same person anymore.It was three days later when I called her again. My work in St. Louis was done for now–I would have to come back several times before I was finished, but for now, things were back on. Thinking and daydreaming, but above all wishing the magic people would make her dad’s ship appear. Of course, her dad always came home and they would all have a wonderful few weeks together until it was time for her father to return to sea. However, to her young mind the magic people brought her dad home, so she would leave extra food and treats out for them for looking after her. She spent many an hour sitting on the headland daydreaming, occasionally someone would walk by. She was always. "You will do as the family says, and you have been promised to Wang. If you don't go willing to his bed, you will go forced!" Mei snapped out and turned around."Mother Lee, Amber is my wife, now. You tell this Wang, that if he comes near her, or my family, I won't be held responsible for anything that happens," Victor said as he watched the woman walking away.Mei turned around and was about to snap out when she was interrupted."Miss Lee, I suggest you and your friends leave, or I will have to. . but I suspected she wanted something from me. She had more than once invited me to her tent at darker hours of the day, but I always nicely declined. I was not sure if what she wanted from me was something I was willing to give her, or any other woman.Five days from the day I had almost killed a man with just my looking at him, I had the dream again, the dream of the fortress and the tower where I fell down on my back. But this time, I climbed upwards the ladder, but I fell down when I had.