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Did I laugh when the guys drove home at processional speed! Typical overprotective young parents.... Whatever end Ann will meet, she'll end up as one of those white, shimmering wraiths haunting New England coastal captain's houses....

...and Khan ever the perceptive one!

As befits a story like that, eh?

Hmm, hard to say. Both boys -nikki and chance - do not really behave rational. But heir quick acting without any concept of what‘s going on can possibly attributed to hitherto unknown spirits within. I suddenly you find yourself in another dimension, and Without any experience you understand and accept that fact. You suddenly have a urgent interest in your fathers whereabouts. And make a deal with an unknown spiritual entity.....but chance is the same....so cannot say which is my favourite character yet. Van perhaps? keep writing long chapters in rapid succession and I’ll let you know!😜

So it will be a while until we meet old Nik?

There went sthg wrong with editing in the last few paragraphs: switching from first to second person, even within a single sentence is a bit confusing....keep going!

...and here I was expecting Trevor to be the incarnation of Israfil‘s brother......fair enough! Keep them shadows coming!

"...I blushed like a twelve year old girl." What a fun statement, given the history of the two!

Intersting......but cliffies are BAD!

Voice and speech might be a give away...as are body movement/gait etc. for a trained eye as the Colonel

For a while I thought Nero might be a wyvern.....but those don’t do flams, right? But snakes of any kind do?

So both sides place their assets, clamber for pole position....Theo and Nero - nice names btw - and now Darren (or is Nero again?) Any updates on Gramp’s chest? What happened to the stones...... questions!

(If the guests are standing on the main deck, and have facilities to use one deck uo and one down, that might make it THREE decks they can use, right?) Nice drama free chapter, getting to know crew and ship. Nice vessel she is!

Aw shucks, so sweet!

I think any of my many cousins would be slightly miffed if just went and build a mansion on their property and move n with my brood while they are at university or in a coma. The question of obtaining a building permit is just a side show... other than these quokkaesk inexplicable intricacies, I love the story. I'm always keen about learning WA life and nature. Marsupial sightings being a favorite, of course! Keep up the good work!

What a nice and drama free chapter! Thanks for writing!

So it's cousins, not brothers....

And how long does this choir dwell in conniptions over a random singer, somewhere, someplace? Months after months in tizzy about a definite non-story?

This is the secret nd chapter now, I share drpaladin's feelings. Here we have teenage farmboy, invited on a luxury vessel, and he acts all debonair and arrogant, gets a hissy fit and makes unreasonable demands to be brought ashore immediately- because he as guest does not agree with suggested dining arrangements. Nothing in the events warranting anything like such reactions. Even more befuddling and strange ( although quokka seems to like such unreasonable reactions and plots) is the grand and costly evasive manoeuvre to the Falklands, of all places. To avoid nothing else than A PHONE conversation with Sebastian, who has done him no harm. Any 17 year old would rather be curious about Sebastian's business, then flee half-way around the world, because he was invited to the Captain's table for his first meal aboard a luxury vessel, making a day trip just for HIM!

Can't really see any point in this protracted and costly media avoiding charade. Do one press conference, and it'll all blow over quickky, no harm done. A yacht reported missing and re-surfacing again isn't big news.... As to reporting about the Fentons - Anton blabbed that loudly in Portobello for all and sundry to hear.... Curious abou the Leon-Kirk story! - and yes, one would normally use the winches to move a boat over land.....much more power! For further adventures I'd recommend handheld GPS devices and a few soate batterries. Wrapped in tin foil and stowed in the oven or microwave the e,ectronic would survive lightning. Also, a yacht this size should have a tub of polyester resin and a few fibreglass mats for repairs. She was so conveniently careened!

With five people able to take the helm I cannot see any reason for 8 hour shifts! 6 is already long, but are an option for a crew of two when not doing 2/2/4/4. so perhaps some of the more experienced adults might suggest 4 hour shifts. Work like a charm with just three crew....again my 2c

I was expecting good mom's demise a chapter earlier, while Gramps was in hospital still. At times characters seem to be difficult to portrait in a consistent way, or they don't fit well into the intended further story development. So they have to die some way or the other. At least in WA it happens a lot. Also boys abandoned, orphaned, in an case very mature very early and making big decisions - and big fortunes- without any real experience/training beforehand, are a recurrant theme. Even though I am by now used to the MO of such main characters, Anton's decision making still baffles me at times. How little he consults with the parties involved. Like making arrangements for distance education for Simon, only talking or rather just informing Jasper an hour earlier. But not Simon. Or buying the flat in Perth. Can he even do that all by himself, not being18? Or at a whim making legal arrangements for Vic and Rita to only receive shares in an unstable, new business venture instead of already agreed payments??? Without even talking to them? Be it arrogance or hubris, this lack of humility, empathy...whatever is an annoying trait of our little hero.

What away to come out. And then his team to boot.... bit it'll make things easier in the long run. You shouldn't get in the habit of cliff hangers though!

Harley's middle name is not "OSHKOSH"! How could you! Looking forward to any scribbling you might throw at us until the Squad story continues....*hint*

What a grand bike!