Over the course of the next year everyone in the family made an attempt to bring me back into the fold but I wasn't having any of it. My brother and h...s wife flew out to Aspen to go skiing and he detoured to spend a day with me and used it to try and talk me into going back for a visit. Sorry, not going to do it. My younger sister and her husband stopped to see me on their way home from a vacation in California to work on me. Nope — way to busy to leave, don't have the time.Then I got the call. For weeks he’s been so wrapped up in his work, usually working through lunch, sometimes even dinner and late into the night. Coming home after she has fallen asleep and leaving for work before she would wake up in the morning. So tired of feeling neglected and frustrated, she has plans today to get his attention. She sits on the edge of his desk and waits for him to finish his conversation. Passing the time, she flips through the stacks of files scattered around. As the phone call drags on she. ”“Cute?” Ashley asked tilting her head.“Very. Look, she asked if she can have dinner with us.”“Okay for me, but let’s ask Lynn too.”“Good point. Has she been in the bathroom for long?”“She should be out any minute,” Ashley answered. “Danny, am I too pushy?”“Why?”“Today I just insisted on going to the Louvre. I just demanded it.”“I’m okay with the Louvre, but perhaps you should pipe down your assertive nature around Lynn. She’s not exactly on the same footing with us.”“Oh shit, you’re right.. The terrain was flatter here, the dunes far lower than what they had been navigating so far. The satellite images indicated that they would soon be approaching a large salt flat.“Let’s slow down a little,” Ben advised. “Whatever we’re about to roll up on, we don’t want to make our presence known until we know what we’re dealing with.”“Commander, I have something,” Lozka said.“What is it?” he demanded, tapping at one of his monitors as he switched to her camera feed.“I am ... not sure.”“Full.