We came to the main road and I directed her, "Right again." Where are we going?" she asked."To the camp."As the road was better now Kiesha didn't spee... up. She had a worriedlook.The road ended at the camp parking. There were ambulances and policecruisers."Stop at ambulances," I asked her.Freddy and I were immediately secured on the gurneys and put inambulances. The last thing I saw was some police officers approachingKiesha.* * *The next time I met Kiesha again was in the hospital. Freddy and. "Somebody I know dropped the seine overboard before I even had a chance to get in the boat." (Jeff was referring to an earlier comment he had made about throwing out the "seine" to catch another wife for Frank.)"What?" Frank said, turning back to Jeff as what his Prime had said sunk in. "No way. She's..." One hell of a pretty girl," Jeff interjected. "Her asshole boyfriend is history, and your mate obviously thinks she's great. Guess what they're going to be talking about at that hen party. "The worm drive actually isn't a drive at all. It doesn't propel us. It merely opens a wormhole in space—the formal name is an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, it's something akin to a black hole—and holds it long enough for us to enter if we're traveling fast enough. The first law of thermodynamics says matter and energy can't be destroyed, so we have to come out somewhere; some very complex math called worm mechanics is used to determine just where we do come out, which can be controlled by the way the. I could have gotten a good night’s sleep, picked up a package of pre-prepared ‘barbecue’ at the grocery an hour before they were due to arrive, and they wouldn’t have known the difference.Oh, and their constant use of their phones during the meal was yet another thing I’d long given up getting upset about., like their late arrival. They were so far gone up their own assholes they couldn’t see how rude their behavior was – and Marsha, their hostess, was one of the most prolific offenders..