The undigested meal will rot and kill them.Other than a heavy-duty icky factor, the slumbering reptiles posed little danger to us as long as we left t...em alone. I shuddered to think about it, but our slumbering cavern mates might prove to be a useful source of food.The first priority was to help Alice regain her composure. I shared and understood her fear of snakes. Fear is useful and can provide the necessary adrenaline to power us through dangerous situations. On the other hand, too much fear. A middle aged woman was seated next to him. Seeing his nervousness, she asked, “Is your wife expecting a baby?”Dan squeaked, “I’m not married.”“Oh,” the woman said.He looked at the door leading to the doctor’s offices thinking that he’d rather wait for his sister outside. The front door opened and, much to his horror, one of the women from the restaurant walked into the office. It was Kim, the biggest gossip in the restaurant. His hope that mutual embarrassment would have them staring at the. I skimmed the text over quickly, to becertain that it didn't require any action from me, locked the phone'skeys again and shoved the device back into my trouser pocket. Just thenScott called,"Mike? I think you'd better come and take a look at this..."I immediately picked up on the tone of genuine apprehension and alarmin his voice, so I half ran, half walked to the staircase and then wentup the stairs two steps at a time. Something out of the ordinary had tobe happening; Scott was hardly a man. It was too far to walk, and the suit didn't have enough safety filament anyway, so Ide secured the line connecting the two bubbles of human endeavor, the one a speck of dust in comparison to the worldlet they now occupied, and pushed off the floor toward the back wall, pulled sideways from the intended target by the slow Coriolis effect of the micro-gravity stabilizing spin of the station.At last reaching the tiny personnel hatchway outlined in large contrasting stripes visible from the far end.