Helva’s almost panicked voice rang throughout. Inkie woke slowly, barely aware for some extended time. She couldn’t see or hear, and she was breat...hing through a SCUBA-like full-face mask. Her wrists were fastened together as were her legs at the ankles. After a while, she came to understand that she was submerged, probably in water. Helva! Inkie asked her friend and lover. Helva told her. That last was a plaintive wail. Inkie responded. Helva continued. If she hadn’t been so concerned,. I know what you were thinking.My surprise came at 11:20 when my cell phone rang. It was Jyll. She was calling me from a bar, very drunk. “I’m at the bar and I need a ride home. Im here with this guy and he is kinda scaring me.”“Okay okay. What bar?Minutes later I was walking into the downtown sports bar in my sandals, jeans and t-shirt where I found Jyll so drunk she could barely sign the credit card receipt. I got her out of there into my car and drove her home. She cried all the way. Weeping. Like many great social experiments ofthat era, the hoped for agrarian utopia fell victim to a combination of poorplanning, infighting and homesickness which resulted in the abandonment ofthe colony after only a few years. Isla Del Sur was uninhabited for nearlya century until rediscovered by one of the ancestors of the original Leaguemembers, when going through papers inherited from an estate. This man was alsoa misfit of sorts, but he had the resources and contacts to make better useof the. I remembered the substance my friend had given me. I had to mix it in something to have her consume it. I had time on my hand thanks to the bad roads and rain. I was desperately searching for a good decent hotel to have coffee.The local hotels would be filled with people and they would definitely stare at this lovely woman. Lissy aunty sitting alone next to me was even making my throat dry. I managed to find a good hotel and drove in. I told her we’ll have a coffee. I selected a table right at.