Paul shook my hand and asked me in. Paul asked if I wanted a coke and I accepted. The House was very tidy, the car was clean and the lawn was mowed, s... I couldn't think of anything that he would need doing.Paul asked my name, "Joe I said" where I went to School and how old I was. He seemed really nice and very friendly. Paul asked if I had cleaned widows before, I hadn't I told him, but it couldn't be too hard! Paul went into the kitchen and came back with some rags and window cleaner. He then. He was still trying to struggle upwards for breath, at least in his mind, for his body was finished. He was still hoping against hope he could somehow, miraculously, survive. But it was not to be. He heard the men conferring with his father and it was decided that it was time for Billy to be raised up to the sky in spirit as well as flesh. Mr. Jenkins came up with a short, thick iron pipe. Billy heard his mother wail but her cry was only briefly audible, spiking momentarily, and then quickly. “You could try to reach Union Space you know.”He laughed dryly.”Getting interrogated and then dissected in a secret Union Lab, what would be the difference to being eaten by a Togar family?”Instead of simply shutting up aiding and abetting a declared enemy, I said.”I think you believe your own propaganda then. We do not do things like that. You ask for political asylum at any custom office and you will get it. Once that is done, you become a citizen. Doesn’t matter in the Union if you’re one. "What is that?" Lucy whined for a moment, her tough visage slowly seeping away. "Oh, just an entire list of all the things you've stolen for schoolwork. Looks familiar, doesn't it?" Lucy became stern-faced to try to regain control. "Anna, if you don't give those back, you're gonna get the wedgie of your life!" "And what? Then I'll send them out to everyone later? Show them to mom?" Anna whispered. "I could call her right now. M-" she's cut off by Lucy, "No, please! Not mom, do not show mom...".