She didn't answer immediately but looked at me curiously. "No. That's all your own. I protect you. I protect our family."

"I'm happy that you do. We're in agreement that we need to return to the world. But I don't know when that will happen."

May heard us talking. "The Mother must know this answer. Maybe she has not told us all that she knows."

"Do you think she wouldn't help us if she could?" I asked.

"I think she is cunning," May replied.

I later ...