| It cuts down on needless chatter. Keeps all parties focused because the hand squeezes and motions all had specific meanings which both sides were learning to use to communicate back and forth. By the time we reached the hotel parking lot I had learned enough hand gestures to be able to communicate to them that they had to wait there, where I was leaving them. That I would return shortly for them. We had used the hand squeezes and gestures to do the same thing before crossing areas which the babies were uncertain. They would have me wait and then go forward to check things out and then they would return. Naturally I was uneasy letting them scout out in front together, leaving me back behind. They could have kept going and had they done that in the darkness, it might have been my last night in this world. They came back every time however and I had every intention on coming back for them. First I had to get to my SUV safely. I didn’t know if Horton would be staking out my ride, or if he even knew what I drove. It turned out he either didn’t care that much about the whole incident or he was too busy heading south to worry about what I was doing. next page |  |