I know I'm eye candy, and I do everything I can to maximize that fact.An IM appears on my computer monitor.JMitchell2002: Hey.Wasn't expecting anyone�...� who the hell?Me: Sup.JMitchell2002: Saw on your profile we went to the same high school… I think I graduated before you did.Me: Right on… who are you?JMitchell2002: Jack Mitchell. Class of 2000. Track team?Oh shit. I remember him.Jack was the track and field star my Freshman year. He was my main competition in the sports section of the school. She went back to where he was bound on the floor and hovered over him a moment. There’d been a multitool in the utility cabinet, enough of a blade to end Haul’s life with little effort. The knife’s edge against his throat, she watched his terrified eyes, wide and beat red, staring up at her in disbelief.“Why shouldn’t I kill you, Haul? What, in your miserable life, makes you deserve to take even a single breath more?”He didn’t respond and he couldn’t given the way she’d wrapped several loops of. The escort followed close behind me and we made our way to our first stop to see Hajin. I'd sent word last night for him to meet me at the estate observation tower.The tower is located at the far eastern edge of Derwen's property on a steep hill that overlooked the main road from Port City. The tower was manned mostly by the mercenary officer's training company as a formal part of the training. Hajin had explained to me that manning a post is often long, boring work and recruits got a flavor of. I need my tapemeasure and note pad. I think I left them on the kitchen table. I'llbe right back."He turned to go, but Robbie stopped him, afraid he'd chicken out andhide in the house. "I'll get them, Jordie. You stay right here." So," Frances felt a need to fill the awkward silence that Jordan'sinfatuation was creating, "are you in school, Melissa?" I was," the tall girl replied, happy to converse, "until thequarantine. I just finished my senior year at Brown University down inProvidence. My.