It was dark when she woke up, and she found herself on a hospital bed, naked. She could see a crack of light under a door, and she could hear men's vo...ces."All the other girls are on the truck and out. We just missed this one because she was on her way back from programming when the evac order came." Where's she at in the processing?" another voice asked. She didn't understand what they were talking about (did they mean her?), but she kept listening to see if it made more sense."Physical. ”“Y’all need to step your act up. The Auburn bunch has all that scheduled.”“Yeah, but they got that lady that takes care of the pavilion. We need staff,” I returned.“You ARE staff...”Oh yeah, we hit Maddie up, too.“Mom and Dad’s,” she said. “Mom loves it! She feeds us all.”I’ve met Maddie’s folks. Good people.Funny. We walked into a seafood joint. I did a quick scan. “There’s Carl and Sunny.”Haley waved like a nutcase to get their attention. Sunny waved back with a beckoning motion. We pointed. "Joe Madden was another choice individual. He was a soft spoken person that oozed intelligence. He asked, "Do you think you're ready for the majors? You know you didn't put in any time playing in the farm clubs and came up when they had a bunch of pitching injuries. Mike told me how he had you pinch hit after clobbering one the day before while you pitched two innings. Then you hit everything thrown to you until you were hit on the wrist. That was really too bad as the Marlins might have made. ------ ------ ----It was nearing noon when River and Kyle were cleaning up the last ofthe heavy contaminants from the river bottom when the MoE car got out.This time there were two men in it. One was Agent Westerbrook, theother was a taller man in an expensive-looking suit."See, they are still doing it," Westerbrook told the other as theyapproached."Hello," the taller man said. "My name is Ernest Whitecliffe,supervisor of the Thunder Bay office of the Ministry of theEnvironment. Can you let me.