I'd had a busy week, with onething and another, leaving me little time to dwell on what lay in store.On Friday afternoon one of my work colleagues, Dr...w, asked me if I hadany plans for the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend. "My dad's just gone into"Golden Days" sheltered accommodation," I told him. "I'll be visiting himevery Saturday from now on." "Golden Days"?" said Drew. "That's where my grandmother lives. She'sbeen there about a year now. She's very happy there, apparently. If yousee her, say. She listened as carefully as the pounding of her heart and the drumming of the rain would allow her to. Jasmine saw no movement along the line of shelves and she re-checked the area away from the door. Cautiously, Jasmine arose and stealthily went to the door. It was a windowless entry that looked very solid. Jasmine reached out to grip the door's chromed knob, but quickly pulled her hand back, as she found it to be cold and wet.Looking down at the flagstones leading away from the doorway, the. At least they weren't on deck when Too popped in."Yes, dear?" Did anyone retrieve our A-10's?" Yes, dear. I took the twins down in the Illusion"Illusion ... pet name for a rather interesting Russian passenger airplane ... with an interesting story."So you know about the disk?" Yes, dear ... mostly. I know it's missing." She grinned, "What did you do with it?" If you look off to port you will see an Orca escort." Oh, cute!" Too asked, "Is that real?" No mom ... that's Company."The orca sidled up. It hurt, I won't lie. It stung. But there was something else, something bigger, that over-road the pain. I swear I was in a state of semi-consciousness until we were 200 feet down the road. I know i made some sort of noise, and I know i must have had some sort of dazed look on my face."Oh my" she said, "Just wait until i step on it with my boots to make it go away!"Needless to say, that didn't help either We ended up having to very intentionally listen to some national public radio and talk.