Tessa hugged and kissed us both. Even if she had not heard our lovemaking she could tell from our demeanour that we were still on a high after it. She...was genuinely pleased for us both. Tessa had cycled into town and bought a selection of croissants and pastries for us to enjoy with our coffee. While enjoying a leisurely breakfast we caught up with the latest news. The utterly clueless British government had announced a further relaxation of the lockdown which now meant that friends and. Four of them seem to have landed at four equidistant points round the base, and the fifth landed on the main runway. We have strong suspicions that the four were emitting some king of high-frequency audio signal, which caused all of us to feel disorientated and nauseous during the extraction of Lieutenant Price and the alien child."We still don't know if they walked out or were carried, but the elapsed time was pretty short, so we are assuming they were carried out, probably affected the same. She turned just in time to hear the door slam closed in the pitch blackness."What are you doing?" she asked."Preparing to have some fun," Georgia's rich voice replied from somewhere off to the right.A match flared off to the side just as Lexi found the door and struggled to find the knob. In the light of the freshly lit candle she could see a deadbolt on the door and knew it was locked as she tugged futilely at the door. She looked at Georgia in frustration as the woman ingored her and began. Ted. Lisle is coming, too.”“Ted invited you and Lisle to Lake Minnetonka?” I asked.“He sort of invited me. He watches birds, you know. He told me he’d teach me how to spot loons on the lake,” my daughter bubbled.A wave of vertigo washed over me. I’d been here before. Willa. When so much was different, could this first date of my daughter’s be so close to the same? Déjà vu all over again. It always took me by surprise. I sat at the table and did my best to continue the conversation with.