"My initial estimates have been refined somewhat," Doctor Morrow spoke up. "But the original figures are accurate. Taking into account what our instru...ents here have been telling us of the damage for the last seven days, my staff and I concur that the world's population has been cut in half if not more. The infra-red scans confirm this as well." Good Marcus!" Richard Graham exclaimed."We've been trying to raise EDEN Ground Command for the last thirty-nine hours, ever since we got the main. He took everything in stride until she brought up her brief marriage to Phil Slyers. The thought of her having love affairs with other women kind of sounded kind of erotic. He had a couple of porn tapes hidden and watched them now and then. He liked those better than a man and a woman, he had to grin at that. The marriage to a man made him feel envious of him though Phil was dead.Herb had a 2000 acre spread about five miles north of the town. It was ten pm when they arrived. As Nancy stepped. “I didn’t say anything,” Elaine replied.‘My daughters…’“Oh my God! He’s awake” Béla nearly shrieked. “Father!”She twisted back around and wrapped her arms around him again, hugging him tightly.Sibilius weakly brought his hand around to grip her shoulder and pulled back gently, asking her to release her tight grip from around his ribs.“I’ve not been in such close physical contact with any other for many, many years, my Child,” he gently told her, his voice rasping as though it had not been used. After a week and eating little and running miles on miles I could feel my clothes becoming slack. I almost smiled to myself — I was becoming a slacker. One morning as I ran I saw a tern walking on the beach. As I got closer I saw that its wing was broken. I took my shirt off and wrapped around the poor innocent creature. I took it into town to the vet. I could see Jen doing that and felt a small comfort. No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue I could not foresee this thing happening to.