" And what gives you the right to order me around?" Jenny was getting kind of pissed with his attitude. Instead of answering her Marcus started starin... off into space like he'd done outside. Fine! Be that way! The teenager stamped her foot and strode out the door.Jenny was alone when she returned to her apartment. Her mother was at work and her grandmother was off visiting some friends. She flipped on the television but her grandmother couldn't afford cable and the antenna reception was lousy.. I was going to do some shopping and headed out. As I walked up the stairs I heard the girls and women. They were setting out bottles of beer in tubs of ice. A few of the squad were up and relaxing in chairs and the sergeant grinned and lifted a bottle.I held up the gold, "I was going shopping."He nodded, "get a good jungle knife and maybe a set of forest mocs."I grinned, "I was going to see if the base store had a small ice maker."Anything made by a mage was very expensive. He sat up and looked. Then she jerked forward, almost zombie-like and, taking hold of one arm, helped pull him sideways off the rock."Aaahh!" Jonathan groaned as he slipped onto his side. Gasping with obvious pain and gripping his chest tightly, he managed to sit up on his legs and buttocks.Dani continued standing and staring down at him as he slowly recovered from his rib-smashing arrival. He seemed to be checking every part of his body to make sure everything was there. When he noticed Dani out of the corner of. ." Night descended on America for the last time on March 3rd, 2261. Thenation Of the People, By the People and For the People was 484 yearsold. It had long endured the upheavals of time and society.It was already dying from the inside out. Most of southern New YorkState, northern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio west to Cleveland, Akronand Canton now lay silent, bereft of most of the life that had livedthere only days before. To this point in time, not even the most devastating extinction.