” I don’t know why but I felt I could speak openly with her, so continued, “I can sometimes hear a noise at night, I will wake up screaming, kno...ing the Cong were about to hit us again.“My Mom will come in to sooth the scares away. She knows how to hold me and rock the ghosts out of my dreams. She will sing a soft song calming me.”Irene said, “What does she sing to you?”“I have no idea. She will just sing and I calm down.” I told her“Wish I could be there to do the soothing. I think I would do. He actually poured four shots and joined us. “To my last customers!” Larry said and raised his glass. We all chugged the drinks and smiled and laughed when finished. Bob was now standing behind my barstool with his hands on my shoulders and Stan was on the barstool next to me on my right and his left hand was on my thigh as we laughed. I rubbed my shoulders under Bob’s hands and he started to gently rub them as I asked them how long they were staying. I learned they were leaving tomorrow. Robert offered her his hand and led herto the floor as did Eddie to me and we closely followed. My head wasspinning as we danced slowly to the band whether it was the effects ofthe champagne or the closeness of Eddie and his touch as his handsupported my bare back as we danced around the floor or if it was thesecret I had to reveal to him before the end of the night.The night went quickly and in no time at all we were on the countdown toChristmas. As the assembled group counted down from ten we. Hanglointherlastimmenos had probably been so filled with her on selfrighteousness that she completely forgot about the replicator when she started his coup.Doug had debated simply killing Hanglointherlastimmenos, but he was afraid that her minions might kill a lot of people in panicked retribution. He figured that he could kill Hanglointherlastimmenos anytime he wanted to, but there were some things that he needed to do before he took care of that chore.His first goal was to rescue Inten and.