. pretty. Look at that street." She pointed ahead to an avenue traveling from the harbor up to the Palace Hill. "It has what looks like trees and flow...rs planted down the center of it. What trees were there at home? Not in the city. You had to look over the walls to see green." But it's not done." So? Can't you see the beauty to come?"He took a breath, slowly letting it out. He was looking for things to hate about the place."Yeah. I see what you mean." I think this is part of why we're here. To. Once we find the tattoo and, with the records that will, with your help, be there, we’ll be able to move in with a team large enough to invade Manhattan. With Orm, Davidson, and Erzy together along with those files, prosecution will go smoothly. Their days of terror will be over.’ My proximity to danger in all of this was beginning to sink in and a feeling of dread began to wrap around me. I thought about the people — the dead people — I’d seen earlier. I thought about the horrific tortures. I cried my tears, and left to go home and search for life. A new storm was upon me and I didn’t have Annie to help me reach the point when the storm would inevitably end, as storms always do. I had no one to hold my hand, no one to make the sun shine. ~~~~~ ‘Dammit, Terry! I know how you feel but you just can’t sit around and mope.’ ‘I know, Dad. I’ve thought a lot about it and I guess it’s that there isn’t any closure. I know Annie died in that mudslide. I know it in my mind and in my heart.. It had never taken so long before. She’d not had a boyfriend and was actually a virgin. We did a lot of playin around and even got ter tastin each other’s parts but that was as far as she would go.After Ah graduated we got married and Ah taught her as much about sex as she had taught me about numbers. She loved it and turned into a real sex hound. Good thing she had an implant because her womb was always full of sperm.Ah had a problem though. Back home yew were supposed ter share with family..