I was comfortable here and didn't want to go, but staying felt wrong.Since I didn't have much to pack and neither did Chandra, I took her out back and...put her through her paces until dinner was ready. With Chandra, I was harder on her than anyone that I had ever taught, mostly because she had much more potential than any of them did. The training of Kassandra's apprentices needed to be more stringent than anyone from my world could have endured. Chandra expected me to be exacting and I was, it. ”Susan searched for another thought. “We’re better off here. Somebody will come to rescue us.” Probably nobody believed it, herself included, but the radio spots said that after two weeks it would be safe. Anyway, where would they go to?Where was Howard? Maybe they’d only rocketed here. Probably she’d never even know. The kids who’d ducked under their dining-room tables and covered their heads? Just blown away.They were in a concrete box in the ground with lots of food and nothing above.Susan. So are you excited to see Aunt Sonja? Stephanie, my older sister, whispered in my ear once we were almost done with the long drive as we sat in back seats of the car while Mom was chatting Dads ear off as he drove. Itd been like forever since the fourth of July and Id never had the chance to do more than an awkward goodbye handshake with the girl who had secretly taken my virginity during the grand fireworks display in some trees of the large farm field. I never talked about it, so I played. She was seriously creeping him out.Lee moved over to the downed man, and they watched her warily. She placed a hand over his thigh, and they all saw her glow brighten then dim. She turned off her bling and plucked the bullet from the wound. She handed the man the bullet. “Souvenir,” she said and grinned.The agent looked at his leg to see a small round scar and accepted the still blood wet bullet from Lee in wonder. The other agents looked at the healed leg and then at her incredulously.The.