How do you do?

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."”

Her name is Jaella, this woman I met the other day. She was sitting by the stream with Fonce and the easy line of his shoulders told me I would like her. Isn't that funny? Women that make him comfortable always turn out to be the kind of women I grow closest too. Like Cana. Cana has been very busy though and I have not seen her much. I was hungry for friendship.

Enter Jaella.

She was sweet and obviously light hearted but thoughtful. I feel like we have met before, maybe under a different sky. Lei ignored her mostly, she always does that with new people, but later she remarked that Jaella was pretty. A high compliment from the Tuchuk Princess!

I have asked Jaella to make Lei a pair of good, sturdy but pretty, boots. Boots, you'll recall, have become such a problem. I never found another leather worker who did such good work as Yamka but I knew I could never really ask Yamka again.

Jaella did not barter with me, our conversation abut the pretty boots was easy and I think offering trade would have made it too perfuntionary. I do not want to trade with her anyway, I don't want to do business with Jaella, and instead I will give her a gift in exchange for the boots.

Somehow, that seems to make much more .. sense.

I met her mate earlier, Sahli. I liked him too. I got the impression he was the kind of man that would stop his own task to help you in yours and never think a thing about it.

Once, in Fonces supply wagons (my personal mall), I found a small metal toy that I gave to Lei. It is two metal rings that are each all twisted up and you are supposed to try and separate them. It IS possible, I did it once. But it is really very hard and once you do the toy is worthless. They belong together, two halves of a whole.

The children and I have been invited to supper and I , for one, cannot wait!