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I understand, the skywheels worked on the same principle as the ancient sailboats.  It used no energy except natural energy.”
         I began yawning and she said, “What kind of hostess am I?  I’ve given you no food or drink and now I’ve kept you up yamming.”
         She got up and went to the back of the cave and made a turn and disappeared and I realized there was another room to the cave.  She came back with a bowl of fruit and vegetables and what looked like a loaf of bread.
         I hadn’t realized I was so hungry until I started eating.  We soon finished everything down to the last crumb and drank all the tea she had brewed.  Everything was delicious.  I yawned again.
         “Come on,” she said.  “I have a place for you to sleep.”
         I dreaded sleeping on the floor of the cave even if she had a sleeping bag but she led me to the back of the cave and rolled out two of the weird balls like the ones from the family I had been with.
              I relaxed and let it fit to my body.  We had, at one point during the evening take n a bathroom break outside the cave behind a bush.
         As I was drifting off to sleep, I could hear her mumbling and I thought she was meditating but then I heard her say, “I will deliver her if you’ll let me out.”
     
     
    CHAPTER FIVE
         I woke up the next morning to the smell of coffee and the sound of Irene humming.  I stretched and sat up and the material adjusted to give me support and comfort.
         I sat watching her without her knowing I was awake and I saw a table and two chairs I hadn’t noticed before.  They looked like they were made out of the same material as the balls.
         When I stepped down onto the floor of the cave it seemed to have a cushiony feel to it that I hadn’t noticed before.
         As I approached the table, she looked up and saw me, “Have a seat and help yourself,” she said.
         The content of the breakfast surprised me.  There was bacon and eggs with toast and wonderful coffee.  I was so amazed I looked at her with a question in my eyes and she said, “I don’t understand it either.”
         “But, where did this food come from?  I’ve seen no chickens or pigs around here and I have a feeling neither have you.”
         “No, I haven’t.
         If I hadn’t been so hungry, I probably wouldn’t have even tasted the food but I took a bite of the bacon and it was the best I had ever had.  The eggs were perfect and the coffee was pure perfection.  Just as I was wishing I had cream and sugar, I noticed a small pitcher of cream and a small bowl of sugar on the table I hadn’t noticed before.
         I laughed so hard I felt like I was on the edge of hysteria and it scared me.  Then I started crying.  I felt like I was losing my mind.
         Irene got up and to ok me into her arms and I began to calm down so much I felt like I had been given a tranquilizer.
         We finished eating and I excused myself and went to find a bush to go behind and when I came back in, the dishes, the food and the table and chairs were gone.  I was afraid to ask and instead sat down on the floor of the cave and waited for her to continue her story.
         “I had a wonderful life, Ashley.  I had children and grandchildren and a wonderful husband.  I still miss them a great deal.
         “The day I crashed my skywheel, I was trying to see how close to the ground I could get before pulling back up but I miscalculated.
         “When I came to , I didn’t realize I had died.  I looked all over for my skywheel and couldn’t find it.  When I came upon this cave I came in thinking I would spend the night here and try to find the skywheel in the morning.
         “I didn’t like worrying my family but had no way to contact them without the skywheel.  I had left my cell phone in there.
         “I spent several days sleeping in the cave at night and