.. Wait..." Jessica said trying to collect her thoughts. "You were at my Aunt's house." Then her face clouded. "Is it all burnt?" I believe so. The me...ories can't be replaced, but the house can." You're an FBI agent, right?" Yes." Sorry. I probably got introduced, but everything is still ... It's like a haze." I know, and yes, we met before. I'm Agent Ling." Agent Ling, will you tell me the truth, if I ask you a question?" If I can." Is John alive?"Ling smiled. She was glad to hear that. ”Dave thought to the discussion he’d had with her about twelve hours earlier after she all but propositioned him. He’d told her that he wanted to have some kind of intimacy of the nonsexual kind with a woman before they made love. He speculated that Erin was here to start on that process.“I’m buzzing you in. The gate will open. You’ve been to the house, so just follow the winding lane up to Circle Drive. Park in front of my home and then come around either side to the core patio. Most of us are. Fred Carter is going to be the contractor -- and it's in his best interests to keep the costs down, as he's a member now and will be using it." Awright -- but sixty is a shoestring?" No, it's just discounted," Candace replied. "We can probably save a bit more on labor costs if we can provide the same kinds of incentives we did last time." That'd be pussy, right?" Frank eyed Jiang Yi."Yes." Well, you need to rotate it, but it won't hurt Jiang Yi to get a little strange here and there, as long as. "Yes sir."Dracos headed down the line to see how the rest of his men were faring. The casualties were lighter as he walked further from the center of the line. He stopped in front of a squad that hadn't suffered a single wound. There were very few enemy bodies on the ground. Gesturing to the local area, he turned to the squad leader and asked, "Jack, what happened here?" Only a couple dozen of the enemy showed up here. We fought them off," Jack answered.The twenty men in the squad would help.