Normally I would be able to slip out, but Alice is sick with food poisoning and Nathan is caught up in a meeting. I'll talk to you whenever I can. Lov... you." Emily sighed with disappointment, but understood. Her mom, being a nurse, was always sporadic with her schedule. Emily kicked the ball into the net and decided that enough was enough for the evening. Retrieving the ball she went back to the locker room. Grabbing her bag she decided that she would change and shower after she got home.. And I also knew, I now needed to get a few answers from him myself. I had come to my own basic conclusions about a few things, but for any of this to ever work, or even have the least bit of chance to work between he and I ... I had to know with certainty, where his head was at. It was time to administer my own brand of truth serum.Danny was waiting for me at the back door when I arrived. And though the house was pitch black of course, there was at least a full moon out, so it gave us just. I visited him every day in the hospital and went to visit him at home as soon as he was there. His insurance did not cover a live-in nurse, so she was in and out, leaving Max to use a bedpan. Unfortunately for him he lived alone and he had no family living nearby."Have I told you how sorry I am?" I asked Max."I have known you for a long time. I know how sorry you are," he replied."Man, you know if there is anything that I can do... " There is something. I really could use a hand with. Pan tried to take it all philosophically, though it grew harder as days turned into weeks. He took inspiration from a story he had read as a boy in school.It was about a prisoner who had been in a situation not that dissimilar to his. He was trapped by an alien being. His cage, the bars electrified, was suspended over a pool of acid and the only access, a ramp that was controlled from the far side of the pool. Each day, the alien would come twice to deliver food, taunting the man about his.