Zookana and I sat down in two of the chairs that were side by side and listened to the strange shrieking sounds of the animal life in the area. Hopefully, they were friendly animals.
She looked at me with a tipsy face and said, “I like you Michael Kenner, the Highness’s caretaker.” Then she looked out into the grounds of the gold building, sighed, and exhaled heavily. She looked at me one more time, smiled softly, and then my friend fell asleep.
It wasn’t but a few minutes later that I was doing some extremely loud snoring after falling asleep myself.
We were extremely tired after the day’s events. The weather outside was perfect. A slight breeze was blowing and no biting insects exasperated us. We slept all night and into the early morning before we were awakened by Perham.
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