"I have waited so long to hear you say that." She whispered."Ayeka..." Tenchi attempted, knowing the limits to his control were already outstripped."I...know!" She sighed, sliding closer, "I know." But couldn't we? Just pretend, for awhile?"Tenchi sighed watching her tremble, was she so blind?"Why pretend?" He asked startling her by drawer her close, gazing deep and unashamed into her eyes."I love you too!" He told her firmly.A delighted gasp escaped her, abandoning all restraint Ayeka threw her. Like his older brother, Kurt was very smart. However, he was not at all athletic and preferred more intellectual games.Emily’s first impressions of the family were that they were all so kind and welcoming. Aside from moving away for college, this would be the first time that she moved so far away from home! But the Schmidts all made her feel like family. And as an only child, she would now have two little brothers.December 26 arrived, and Emily was flying out of Des Moines and heading to. ”We were interrupted by a very loud crackling and hissing sound coming from the common area. When I rushed out I found that Bob and June did as well. Mary was sitting at the table with a knife cutting pieces of meat into small cubes to fit onto a grid drawn out on paper. The piece of meat she was working on was cut perfectly square and the cubes would fit perfectly on the paper when the width of the knife blade was factored in. The crackling and hissing sound came from the pans where Molly was. The special chaff rounds were small canisters of metal-coated Mylar ribbons that were accelerated to thirty thousand meters per second before they burst. It took the missiles thirty seconds to match speed with them and then the missiles went into a coasting pattern, still behind the cloud. The Mylar patterns slowly spread, leaving a visible blob on the Swarm’s sensors, which were apparently not very good in the first place. Their defensive lasers opened up, but they could barely get an idea of.