"Don't eat while I'm talking to you boy." He put down his utensils andlooked up as Dad chewed, it was so quiet he could hear Dad swallow."What grade?..." This was bad, even though Dad never raised his voice hiseyes showed his anger."Grade Four... Sir." The last thing he needed was to forget to say Sir."You got your ass kicked by a kid three years younger than you?" No Sir, I beat him, he just got a lucky swing from the ground." Panicstruggled with a creeping sense of resignation, he had known. It was a clear warm night and things were well lit from the moon and stars. We both sat in the drivers seat and I put my arm around her as we cruised along. I pulled into the marina near the pumps. She went into the store as I put gas in the boat. She came back out with some stuff which I am not sure we needed or not. When the tank was full I paid and we loaded up and headed back out across the lake. It was such a beautiful night and I was with a sexy beautiful woman. She was very close to. Only a bit o’ freight. I’m in charge of the routing and scheduling. Right now, Katoomba’s on ‘er way back from Fremantle. She’s scheduled to make a Christmas trip to the Reef and to the islands. I need a reliable navigator who can keep off the rock an’ the coral and be polite to the passengers.”“Sir?”“The whole trip’s a month. You get to wear a spiffy uniform and smile at the rich folks. You’ll be a young officer and they’ll be over-fed and over-wined. Ormiston lost a drunk cane plantation. The eyes in the bulbous head did not blink, cold darkness fixed upon the struggling white woman.In her nightmares the snake in Texas had been big but that was just her imagination inflating her fear. Here in Haiti this particular snake was big, very big."G-Get it away f-from me!" she stammered, "Please!"She was about to offer to suck the dick of every man present but the words stuck in her throat as she saw a second snake emerging from within the coffin.The first snake was now as high as her.