”I handed the mic to the agent and said, “Get the gunship moving.”The gunship started flying patrols and firing at I don’t know what. I steppe... out of the Stryker and saw five of my Marines haul ass, in a zig-zag pattern toward the Stryker while my sniper team began to light things up.My Marines arrived, I ordered, “The new Stryker won’t be here for several hours. We need establish a defendable perimeter to keep the towelheads from getting to us.”One of the Marines asked, “What about the. .. or granddaughter. We chatted a moment and moved on.We walked along the path by the seawall until we came to a large and sleek looking boat – the largest in the small marina. One spotlight on a nearby pole gave the boat a gracious and warm appearance. I stopped and commented to Jasmine. “This looks like a really nice boat. Why don’t we take a peek?”She balked slightly wondering whether it was all right to do what we were about to do. There were a few lights on in the boat suggesting that. "Yay!! Big ones..." Oh My God!!" Too soon for that, Dave." What?" God ... she's not due for a couple of million years ... like Thirty Five thousand BC. She didn't even stop when she seeded Homo Sapiens ... just flashed on by about Two hundred Fifty thousand years before, dropped a few of you off and split ... she had other planets to seed." HAL? What are you talking about?" God, Dave, God. She's a farmer, Dave." Never mind, Dave ... you don't need to know." Ricky/HAL said, "Watch the sharks,. She repeated her question, “Fifteen minutes?”“Yes, fifteen minutes,” answered Sid not sure what her question meant.Deciding to act as if she was taking his fantasy seriously, she asked, “So what do you get out of it?”“Out of what? Going to Crossroads or having you come with me?” asked Sid.“Going to Crossroads.”Despite having been there three times, Sid hadn’t really thought about an answer to that question. His first thought was that he went back to be with Sally Caretaker, but that wasn’t.