Oops!  For some reason only the end of the post for the 8th appeared the day before yesterday.  Here is the whole thing as intended.

Edin Buttermore is a minor character that pops up from time to time to play a role in the story of Senta and the Steel Dragon.  His wife and son show up sometimes as well.  I liked the name Buttermore and just went with it.

Mrs. Melody Lanier was Mrs. Harper’s daughter and looked just as she must have looked in her younger days, with dark hair and a voluptuous figure that would turn any man’s head.  Likewise, her teen-aged daughter Wenda was a young, thin, and happy version of her, before adulthood had put the lines around her eyes or had put the grey in her mother’s hair.  Mrs. Lanier had lost her husband and Miss Lanier her father, when he was killed in a boiler explosion, while working on the Greater Brechalon and Northern Railroad.  Mrs. Harper had encouraged her daughter to come along with her and try to start a new life in Birmisia.

“You’ve heard me speak of them, and here they are,” said Buttermore.

Mrs. Julietta Buttermore was a very pretty, if frail looking woman at least ten years younger than her husband.  She had very fine honey blond hair and clean, sharp features, but dark circles under her large, amber eyes.  On her hip, she carried a chubby toddler, whose thick shock of golden hair perfectly matched his father’s.