"You...." Tamara smiles, "are such a girly girl."~~~ *** ~~~ *** ~~~ *** ~~~He stirred first, awoken by small pool of drool th...t'd soaked his faceand whatever surface he'd been rested on. Looking up, he realized hehad been resting on Tamara, who was fast asleep herself, head tiltedforward. Up until now, Tamara had been incessantly animated, so it wasthe first time he'd seen her quiet.He noticed her soft features. She was a tomboy, but she was mindful ofher appearance.. You’ll believe it when that old scar on your face goes away.”The stewardess still had not closed the ramp, so Ed had to do it. Fortunately, the plane still had the power and the circuits to make that possible. Dammit, he could see velociraptors strolling around on the pavement. Fortunately, they couldn’t fly, they just looked like they had wings. The hole in the fuselage was out of their reach, but the hole needed to be plugged before something else came along.He started pulling any sort of. " Rosemary looked down at Paul with extreme pity and patted his forehead.Jacob sat down on the edge of the bed next to Paul and held his hand. "Of course, Mrs. Carter. I'll take good care of her."Jacob waited until Rosemary closed the door before turning to Paul, angry."You heartless bitch!" he hissed. "Where have you been? All this time I thought you were dead, and now, what, 25 years later you decide to come back ... And now I'm forty-five, and ... Jeez, I loved you, why did you leave? I. Even so, he didn’t look forward to their separation while he spent three months at Colville Lake; and he hadn’t looked forward to telling her either. Missing their first wedding anniversary was bad enough, being apart from her for a three-month period which included that anniversary sucked.Still, her first question expressed concern for him.“Arctic?” she asked, “Will you be cold?”“Not particularly,” he replied. “I’ll only be at Colville in the summer, after all. It’ll be warmer than it is.