Tyche
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 72
That one took pictures and a few movies ... I had three sim-cards full ... from first sight to raising the mast and first sail. I never did rebuild the flying bridge.
Daddy is using my boat as a hedge against his sister and her three kids. When she gets to being the Grand Matriarch ... he takes his and sometimes hers, they need to get away too ... and they sleep on my boat. Cynthia Mae McWilliams can be insufferable.
He told me he was planning on putting in a portal ... just in case. Billy and Dad no longer go Chaos together ... Billy has his own Caretaker.
A portal on my boat means Zoe and the kids can wait the fifteen minutes in solitude. Hasn’t put it in yet ... waiting on parts ... and a glass cutter who can cut what he wants. Fiji homes don’t have a lot of glass. Windows ... yes ... glass ... no. And shutters ... lots and lots of really good shutters ... Cyclones. Cyclones make glass a hazard.
Murray has been conspicuous by his absence ... Murray is somewhere north of age Ten ... the old man does not like a traveling cage ... he especially does not like traveling in one from Fiji to Austin.
He was not allowed off the plane at Wake Island ... however ... his used sand was ... and new sand was provided.
Wake Island...
When we, Alice and I, were scheduled to fly out ... we had a choice, Express ... or local. Local sounded like fun. Wake was not on the list ... Wake was the emergency. What emergency I don’t know ... but many people were very busy around the port engine for several hours.
Oh ... we ... Alice and I ... could not just disappear from Fiji ... we had to FLY out ... commercial. We came in commercial ... we HAD to leave commercial.
Corporal Mali watched us leave. I think I saw a sigh of relief from the good corp when we waved ‘goodbye’ to Dad and Zoe. A long and boring flight included stops at several islands. Murray saw to it that we didn’t get to get off.
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