" Yes, we do know," Sheel told her as she hooked her arm through mine, "Believe me, we know." Thank you for understanding, and Dac, thank you. By the ...ay, no one told me about guard duty last night and I slept like the dead and feel so alive this morning," then looking directly at me she said in a much softer voice, "mostly thanks to you Dac," then once again in her normal voice, "I feel ready for just about anything." We were just talking about sending out scouting party's to try and locate. Betsy got back for New Years. When she told Thomas about Debbie, she wondered about the sudden sparkle in his eyes. Thomas immediately told her to invite Debbie to join them for New Year's Eve, as he was hosting a small party with close friends at his house. Betsy thought his offer was wonderful, as she couldn't imagine Debbie being all alone when everyone else was celebrating.Debbie gladly accepted the offer and the two went over to Thomas' together. When he saw the woman, Thomas marveled at. "It's a weird term to use – pushing the envelope; it's an engineering term. What my lady means, is that the performance of the model of sports car she has been developing, is exceeding it's original expected limits; they have gone beyond the boundaries set by the designers. Why can't she just say this? Why "push" an envelope at all, and not break it, or open it, or just exceed it?My lady interrupts my deliberations of her linguistic gymnastics by putting her cutlery on the ceramic plate with a. Hell, I'm giving you a week's head start on me with lawyers. I would hope we could come to an easy division of assets and just part ways." I don't want to divorce you," screamed Jenna. "I won't let it happen."The dial tone of the phone buzzed in my ear after the loud click of Jenna hanging up."God, I didn't want to do it that way," I said to myself as I hung up the phone.I looked over at Nikki and she was in tears."I'm sorry I did that in front of you," I said. "I just couldn't lie to her.