Jack of Harts

Drew Keawe was a native of Hawaii. She was also blonde-haired and blue-eyed. I kid you not. I can’t tell you if she was born that way or if she had some work done. There’s some things you just don’t ask a lady, doncha know. The point is that she was my kind of pretty and I was a free agent back then. I was totally interested, and I’m pretty certain I totally fanboyed myself all over her. Then our trainers put her under me in the table of organization. I do not know how our original commanders picked our ranks and positions, though I suspect they may have been testing us. I wanted a completely different position with her, you understand, but the military regs were pretty clear on what positions were allowed with subordinates. So we didn’t. I don’t know if we would have, but that ended any question right there. A part of me will always wonder how things could have turned out if we had. But we didn’t, The War progressed, and I pushed those thoughts and ideas out of my mind.

Drew Keawe was a real life first princess of the Star Kingdom of Hawaii. Not that we know she was a princess, you understand. She was just a famous hula dancer, so in probably one of our more uninspired ideas of all time, we nicknamed her Hula. Yeah. We were real smart back then. She accepted the name with good grace. And that really summed her up. Grace. She was graceful in everything, and I would swear that she somehow bottled joy and carried it around with her. She was impossible not to love, and she knew it. And she used that charm to spread joy wherever she could. And yes, she was real good at the hula dance. She was truly amazing, and she made everything better when she was around. And she made people want to be better. That is a true gift right there.

Jesse James retired after War’s End. He took two decades of wages and winnings and anything else he could scavenge and went back to Kansas to rebuild his farm. Many of his people retired with him. They’d all seen a lot of things they wanted to forget, and he built an extra-large farmhouse for them. Basically a Cowboy Country of his own, where his people are always welcome. The rest of us can come too, but I always feel like a visitor there. Dawn on the other hand, that girl spends more time on the farm than she does back home on Camelot. Or maybe it’s more accurate to say that her home is Kansas now. Jesse’s never complained about it, let me tell you. A more unlikely pairing I have rarely seen, but they still work well together.