Three months later
Yes. I guess I was maturing. I’d settled down with a wife, thirty bovine creatures, at least fifty poultry, plus two employees who were more friends than anything. I had led the manatees’ exodus to their new habitat, and I was funding the Brazilian Eldorans’s retirement swamp so the Eldorans, which the Brazilians called Jabiru storks, had a place to themselves that was safe from predators, human and otherwise.
And on top of that, I’d actually been into space!
Gudi, Phlaux, and Maileen had their stalls at the back of the barn. At Gudi’s request, I took down the walls between the last three stalls so the girls could be together and have that room all to themselves. Phlaux had come to trust people, and she knew that this was her forever-home With Gudi’s and Maileen’s lov
