"What is it?" Enola asked.Hope snatched it, put her lips close to the open top, and blew. A soft whistle sounded within the metal chamber. She held it... up high before her, explaining, "Hang it in a tree, and when the wind blows..."She put it to her mouth again and repeated the melodic sound."That's stupid," a young male voice sounded behind Enola. The boy, Hope's twin, shoved out an unwrapped gift that was unquestionably a mountain climbing hammer. "What does she want a noise maker for? You want. So you know what I want you to do." Train the whores." I said quietly.He nodded."Linda" he picked up the phone and said to his secretary. "Send her in."Almost immediately, I heard the door behind me open. Joe didn't look up and I didn't turn around but Belinda was looking at the girl who must have just come in.Joe encouraged me with a gentle nod. I murmured a silent prayer and finally turned around to look at my mother.At 5'4" she was almost as tall as Joe. She had chestnut brown hair that fell. As the crew began their pre-flightbriefing, I mouthed along... "Ladies and gentlemen, the Captain hasturned on the Fasten Seat Belt sign. If you haven't already done so,please stow your carry-on luggage underneath the seat in front of you orin an overhead bin. Please take your seat and fasten your seat belt. Andalso make sure your seat back and folding trays are in their fullupright position." I giggled a little as we finished.The flight was uneventful. As I deplaned, I looked for an unmanned. Well not anymore.”Rozella jumped on the opening. “Ah so! Not anymore! Then there was someone you have lost? You are wounded in love perhaps? Is this why you run away to Ticino in the middle of the night?”Miranda found herself beginning to tremble under Rozella’s questing gaze and intrusive questions but there was something about this girl that made her very hard to lie to. “Well yes,” she confessed at last. “I suppose it is.”“Povero te! You poor thing. So this is why you hide yourself on this.