The man stood up also, wiping the juice from his face, looking down as it ran from the dais and pooled on the floor.The lights suddenly dipped, as a s...orm of noise erupted around them.　　*****　The Bachmans watched intently as the image of Andreas Volltt, Globalvision's main anchorman filled the air before them."Good evening America!" he spoke enthusiastically, "It's Eight pm Eastern, Three pm in Europe, guten tag, saluton, Mid-day in Russia, previette, and Six am in Australia, G'day to ya!. He had created life and now it was creating more of its own accord. It was such a thing of absolute beauty that he stopped meddling and let it develop without his interference. It was then that everything went wrong. At the edge of his vision my father noticed a slow movement. With his eyes my father saw a war just beyond the fifteenth rock but paid it no heed. It was not his war and he wanted no part of it. Soon though the war destroyed the fifteenth rock then the fourteenth and thirteenth. He noticed that the refrigerator was strangely empty, and there was a lingering smell of food that couldn't have been the tasteless TV dinners he had been eating lately. He threw a crumpled and empty soda can into the trash and headed out the door.Jeff got to the work-site by seven, clocked in and donned his hard-hat. He rode the elevator with a group of laborers to the twentieth floor. Larry was sitting by the gang box sipping coffee."Well, you did return," Jeff greeted him. "We thought you'd. I was relieved that she would be protected from any possible predator's. Even Tina seemed to approve of how her father had set things up for Sherry.Lake Tahoe was beautiful, and we had fun, in the casino, on the lake, and in our suite. The suite was really lavish, up on a high floor, so that we had a sweeping panoramic view of both the lake and most of the surrounding mountains. Tina and Sherry both ran out and bought pencils and spiral sketching pads. Each morning they'd get up early and stand.