The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car...That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard years earlier.T...he next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply,"We can't tell you because you're not a monk."The man says, "All right, all right. I'm dying to know.If the only way I can find out what that sound was is to become a monk, how do I become a monk?"The monks reply,"You must travel the Earth and tell us how many blades of grass there. Of course, the personality of the matriarch had a lot to do with how successful the settlement could be, so we tried to pick our best to manage the pioneer settlements.We had to wait for five years to send out the next pioneer party. We realized we had not sent out enough people. In addition, we needed to send more women with midwife skills to adequately care for the pregnant women. We sent these settlers NORTH of the capital. The terrain here was different. The elevation was higher, the. I'll do the talking. So this girl…' 'Cadet Officer, I've already cracked your ingenious code...' '... So this girl , in all her wickedness, decidesto ruin the day for a decent old man who gave up his Sunday…' 'Uh-uh. None of that,' said Anna, changing gear. 'No good appealing to conscience,you know. The Major-General's a legitimate target, same as you, same as CorporalTaffy…' 'Legitimate target?' said the Cadet Officer in annoyance. 'Who do youthink you are, the IRA? Why couldn't you just leave. As she licked at the pliant flesh, its doughy feel under her tongue reminded her of the cylindrical cinnamon rolls she had helped make while working in the orphanage kitchen.She could smell the first batch in the oven as she labored over the last ones. Because she had missed breakfast, and because the hot, yeasty, spicy oven-smells churned up her appetite, she had felt starved. Not daring to eat any of the baked rolls, because their neat symmetry on the tray would betray the theft, she started.
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