Merriest of Xmases to you all, great and small, like me an' Rapparee, respectively, and Khandu, King, and Litttle Hawk and the Lovely Ladies of the MOAB, Still River Sage and the Lady Eiseley, Sister Janie and the many others who have crossed our dusty lintel here. To Noble Gnu, old friends long forgotten in the wake of the MOAB's golden taffrail, and those who even now and again think of our Mother in her distant unloadable castle!

Nuncle A, First Vowel