This is just the beginning," she said, holding him tightly and raining soft kisses upon him."I'm going to miss you terribly over the next three weeks,..." Cam said, returning her affectionate kisses. "These tours are very tiring. A different city, and a different hotel almost every day. Happily, the organizers at Houndstooth were good enough to have it end in Seattle and Vancouver so that I can get home quickly. That will at least help with the jet lag." When you get home, I'll be here to restore. As I waded through the room, I greeted the men I knew by name. I also noted new faces. There was one, in particular, a black guy I didn’t remember seeing before.When I got back to the front of the room I pulled Blaise close.“I also want to let you guys know that Blaise and I are about to celebrate our one-year anniversary,” I said. “In a couple days it will have been a full year since I first stripped for him. It was actually a little like what I do for you.”There was some laughter and a few. Just outside Bhorz we saw one of the famous pocket high furnaces,which were responsible for the continued pig iron production in thatregion. I asked my companion how it was possible that the furnaces workedwithout electricity, but he told me that the high furnace is an almostperfect closed chemical reactor and that electric power was easilysubstituted by mechanical craft from rivers or animal. In fact, peoplefrom that region knew that high furnace technology predated in manycenturies the. “We’ve got Tommy Hawk with us. The greatest third baseman to ever play for this school.”Everyone in the group turned to say hello and shake Thom’s hand. He was glad he remembered most of them. In this cluster Thom was something of a celebrity. He was the first student athlete from the school to make an All State team and Thom did it twice.“I heard you busted up your foot,” one of the men said. “Is that what kept you from playin’ pro ball?”“Oh, I’d like to blame it on the foot,” Tommy offered.