I hoped the latter, but the truth is that I would never know.I took the opportunity of her turning towards me to kiss the corner of her mouth. Once, t...ice, and then she turned further and met my lips with her own; kissing me softly, allowing me to sample her sweet youth without the full, passionate engagement of tongues. Still holding her hair, I drew her back towards me until I was supporting her weight behind her neck. With my free hand I cupped a small, pert breast; just barely enough to. We were suddenly very alert. The flash lit up the room brighter than day, followed by subsequent blasts near and far. I was so frightened that I peed the bed.The colonel scrambled from the bed snatching his gunbelt and bolted naked through the door shoving aside panic stricken soldiers entering from the parlour-converted command centre to rouse and advise their commander and chief officer. My hysterical needs at the time were to never lose sight of the man in charge who would somehow make. " Crash?"In a few minutes the door that Seamus went through, opened and a man stumbled out, took a few steps and stopped. He looked around, almost falling over, until he saw him and the plane and stopped. He pointed in his direction and put his head down and began walking towards him. After several haphazard steps he began drifting over to the left moving slightly away from the direction he intended."Uhm, hey" yelled Patrick to get the attention of the wandering pilot.The pilot stopped and. He was tired of questions—always deeper, more difficult questions. He had enough of unanswerable questions, unsolvable riddles. Make it black or white! He wanted truth, plain and simple. He wanted it soon, before he was too parched for it to take root. ‘Now, Jamie,’ Father Brendan resumed, ‘though we’re no longer brethren in the Order, we’re still brothers in Our Lord. I bear ye no ill will. Ye must find a path fer yerself in the world. Find the truth that eludes ye, boy. Serve God in yer own.
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