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team is building a fire.
    Brady leans to looks past Jacobs wondering what his team is building the fire from, since there doesn’t seem to be many trees around.  As he sees, he groans but ignores the reality.  Then he stands and announces, “Hold your bladders, gentlemen.  Once that thing is skinned we’ll play target practice.”

CHAPTER 9
    “Anyone who suggests you not look back is already a pillar of salt.” -- from the book of Christina
    As he clicked in, they both heard him and ran to the door.  With an arm swooped down he kissed the young one on the forehead, and with the other arm he pulled her mother to him.  While kissing her he swooped the younger around in a wide arc as she laughed.  Both kissed him back and Renfield wished, at that moment he could stop time.  But, he knew both should be free to grow, free to have their own will and free to do the things they chose.  One had betrayed him once, but he had mostly let that go by now.  It was a strange sensation knowing he was in his own future, but that it would happen and it would be by his hand.
    He looked around at all he had and again just wished that he could stop everything, forever and just be in that moment.  He put down the little girl as he asked her to show him what she had been working on.  She ran off excited to show off her latest work.  The woman looked at him with pride in her eyes and then back at the younger girl speeding away.  Then the younger girl clicked and she turned back to Renfield with a frown.  Renfield held up a hand and grabbed her closer to him as he aggressively grabbed her but to get her even closer.  Stuck in a long and lingering kiss, the little girl returned holding up a drawing.  Renfield pushed the woman from him using her breasts as he grinned at her.  He could hear her think in her standard square of opposition.  It was ironic and therefore funny, but obnoxious, but so like him, that the little one couldn’t see so it was mostly harmless and that it did have the effect on her mood he was aiming for.  She turned trying to get the thoughts from her head as Renfield said to the little girl, “You drew all that out?”
    The little girl nodded in reply to the question.  Renfield’s brow furrowed, “Who helped you?”
    The girl looked up at Renfield as her face sank slightly.  “No one helped me.  I just thought about it and I want to make this.  I am pretty sure it will work.”
    Renfield grinned at her, “I’m pretty sure there isn’t anyone who could have helped you.  And yes, I think it will work too.  Where are you going to get the parts?  Do you have a job yet?”
    “I’m four.  I’m not even done with first grade yet.  Be patient!”  The girl replied.
    Renfield laughed and kneeled to her, “Does that mean I have to wait 12 more years for you to earn your keep around here?”
    “One day, I’ll be a mommy and I have to do it too.  Plus, I want to go to college also, so more like two more decades.”  The little girl responded.
    Renfield looked at the woman and they both took deep breaths.  Renfield then replied, “How about you find a college somewhere you haven’t been before?”
    “Nice try.  I’ll be here for awhile.  Also, watch this…”  The girl vanishes and then she returns with an ostrich egg.  “I can do that.  Eventually, I’ll get everywhere.”
    “Yes, I suppose you will.”  Renfield stands and then asks her, “But can you make dinner yet?  I’m kind of hungry, aren’t you?”
    “Nope.  I’m not supposed to go near the stove.  You told me that.”  The girl responds.
    “That was”, Renfield stops himself and thinks about his next words.
    “Two years ago.”  The girl answers.  “I heard you think about what you were going to say.  Sometimes you think loudly.”
    Renfield smiles then turns towards the woman he still has an arm around and he sees the frown on her face grow deeper.  He shrugs at her and lets her go.
    “OK, so in