Calling twice in Zax's name right after he called twice in Dane's name would have made it too obvious.Zax did not rush to pick up the Earth's Core tha... was five centimeters behind Dane's foot. Since it was too sudden, he could not grasp more than the external shape and so it still was not conclusive that the round object his Soul Sense located bulging from the bottom of the river was an Earth's Core. A perfect sphere with a smooth surface, yes, an Earth's Core ... Zax reached out for the candy. He shucked out of his number eights and sat at thesink and started putting on makeup.It was the strangest thing in the world, being at sea in a navy shiptransforming from a sailor to a Wren.Michele had done this so many times that she did it without thinking.Applying foundation and powder, eyeliner, eyeshadow and mascara. Sherouged her cheeks and applied lipstick. She put on the wig, adjusted itand brushed it out. She sat on the bed and slipped into the suspenderbelt and slid the cool, sheer. No engineers. No motor mechanics. Not even so much as a skilled general handyman. We still needed a bigger, and more versatile, community. We all agreed about these basics. We sometimes disagreed about how to solve our problems. We couldn't just put a "help wanted" ad in the paper.After arriving in Corpus Christi Bay, we did a thorough search of the city and all the urban areas surrounding the Bay, looking for survivors who had, perhaps, already set up housekeeping. We found nobody: Only the. That way, if I went back to my own filed copy,I'd be able to work on it later. I had all the images and plot lines pretty well embedded in my mind.Once all my stories had been checked, I hit the new in the last threedays button, to see what I'd missed. I halfway expected to see a bigbanner put up by Mom, well, Mindy to the uninitiated, proclaiming theattainment of the goal looked forward to for so long. Instead, I sawthat there were fourteen stories added in the past three days, with a long.