“That was much easier, I only needed daddy and then I cast a magic spell! When Jenaya wears the ring she doesn’t need to drink daddy’s blood any...more, because his blood is in the ring,” Menja proclaimed proudly. “Ouh, Ghania says it’s important that the gold ring is pierced through Jenaya’s skin, and the blood gem has to touch Jenaya’s skin too.”“So it’s an earring,” Athea said more to herself than to Menja.“Ghania says that Nigulla and Patessa can tell you what it is,” Menja answered. “Wow!!, I thought you would be some stuffy old geezer, you’re quite cool” she said coming to life.“I will have a wine and smoke please waiter” she said with a giggle.“Your wish is my command madam” I replied as I stood up and seeing that she had put her knees down I walked out to the kitchen where I noticed that my chubby had returned, somehow I got the impression that it didn’t matter.I returned to the lounge with a tray containing a bottle of wine, 2 glasses and 2 joints in the ashtray and. “Hotshot one-six-two, please come in, this is dispatch, over,” the dispatcher asked.“Dispatch this is Hotshot one-six-two, over,” came the reply.“How far out are you from Phoenix now, over?”“About 25 miles, dispatch, over,” the reply came.Hah, the Amtrak would be waiting a long time to go, the finger thought, The passengers were going to love being even later!“Amtrak 1, this is dispatch, do you copy, over?”“Roger dispatch, this is Amtrak 1, over.”The next words almost gave him a heart attack.. 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, Helva would have appeared to be smug. Inkie told her. Helva responded. Inkie quipped. Helva was not above gallows humor. Helva hesitated, then continued, Helva appeared to be weeping, After a pause, Helva finished, There wasn’t much that Inkie could say.