" Just then the shimmering appeared and I stepped through, not into a forest but in the middle of a stream, in a meadow. Just as well I hadn't brought... a vehicle, for I would have been unable to get out of this trench.The stream was quite shallow and only came up to my calves, but it was a shock landing in the stream from firm dry ground. There was a bank about two feet high either side of the stream which in itself was six feet wide. I looked around closely, so I would recognise the exact spot. .. "You want to see that son-of-a-bitch again, you cooperate just like you did before," he snarled. Oh God, Patty thought, was it going to happen again?"Wh-What do you mean?" she heard her mother say in confusion."Well it's this way, Paula baby," Hank said with a sneer. "While you were off running around the big city this morning, little Patty and me, we had a good time here at the old homestead. And I'll tell ya, you ain't got nothin' she ain't got."Patty saw with a sinking feeling the sick. ‘We did together. Just a little while ago. Why?’ ‘What was the exact location?’ ‘That little park down the street from Lotsatech, two blocks north of here or so?’ ‘Do you recall the exact time it happened?’ ‘Not really,’ said Eddie. ‘Maybe about a half hour ago. A few minutes past five when I got out of work.’ To Lisa, he asked, ‘Do you feel a compulsion to engage in erotic oral activity right now?’ ‘No. Not now,’ Lisa said, and giggled. ‘Thank you,’ the FBI agent said. They both jumped back. He hired a man named Tullius, son of a Roman father and a local woman. I gave Tullius an additional shopping list of things I wanted if he could find them. Several of my troops would accompany him and carry the gold I left for the purchases.Despite not being in an ideal climate, the original pots of sugar cane had grown and expanded to forty pots by now. All were planted near my new estate before I left. I also instructed Andagus to acquire and plant as many grape vines for as many different.