Each time she drew the object into her mouth, the strangeobject would remain there for longer and longer periods of time, continuing tomake her senses...curious about its nature.?The release time was nearly impossible to predict, but she always felteager to draw the object in again.? Atleast it was something to do in this black hell. Time passed, although by how much she was uncertain.? The images that flashed whenever she closedher eyes were more random and intense than ever.? It didn?t even. They had just made it to the unit when the Colonel started waking up. But with a quick few finger movements he was out again.Gillyanna had moved to the sensor station and found that they were no longer getting telemetry from the shuttle so she began to reduce the power to it so that the sensors were at 25%.By then Vee had returned to his place on Gillyanna, which made her feel much better."What are you doing?" asked Zygur."We need to reduce the emissions of the ship or that storm Vee told you. At long last, first light finally arrived yet our colleagues still hadn’t returned from their scouting mission. Their long absence gave rise to more unease. I couldn’t help but wonder if they’d ever return and, if not, would I ever forgive myself for letting them go on this apparent suicidal run.“I should have stopped them,” I said, barely audible, to Pastor Paul who sat silently beside me, huddled up in his dingy blanket, staring deep into the orange flames thinking dire thoughts of his. " Yes let's go. Bobbie, Sally, will you come with me please?" Of course we will."I grabbed my cell phone and locked up the house. We got in the back of the police car and headed out to the hospital. On the way I called dad and told him what was going on and he said they would be rushing back home and would meet us at the hospital. We arrived at the hospital and were ushered into a surgery waiting room. A nurse came to us and told us that Kim's parents were both in surgery. She could not go into.