They made it back to Knottwood
by the SKIN of their TEETH... but will General Hanbro
thaw safely and actually survive his twenty-four-year deep freeze? Errol Stanley Ryder has SERIOUS doubts...
He calls his cousin, Doctor Megan Hanbro, for help... but doesn't DARE tell her who he's bringing yet!
Dr. Megan is absolutely OVERCOME when she sees her father - STILL ALIVE after all these years!
She sits by his bedside for HOURS...
...And when he finally opens his eyes...
...hers is the first face he sees...
He mutters his first words in twenty-four years!
Megan explains who she is... and what has happened to him. ON the whole, he takes it rather well...
Luckily he asks his most poignant and heart-wrenching question before Buddy Jim arrives...
...Because Buddy Jim is absolutely OVERCOME at the sight of his beloved father again...
In fact, he experiences an unaccustomed bout of his old childhood Asthma - the first in YEARS!
Soon, however, General Hanbro is enthralling them with his gripping saga of What Really Happened...
...And even the two rescue dogs agree that All's Well that Ends BETTER!
(*Phew*...)
Flowers by Lilith's Lilies, Knottwood