She was beginning towonder if he liked her too when the console in the bedroom gave asignal of two little bleeps and Emma's face appeared on the scree...."Do you want her to see you?" asked Andy."Yeah, all right," said Mandy. He got her to stand in front of theconsole. "Say 'answer, visual' and speak," he told her."Answer, visual," she said. Her face appeared in a smaller window inthe upper left-hand corner. This must be what Emma could see. "Hi Em.Can you hear me?" Yes. And see you. Who's that. I'll call you out when it's time."Soon there was a rap on the screen door. Poppa got up out of his chair. looked at me for a long moment. I fidgeted and grinned, feeling all tingly and happy.Again a rapping on the screen."I'm comin', I'm comin," Poppa growled, sending shivers down my back."Good evening, sir. How are you tonight?" Ramon called from the porch."Howdy, boy," Poppa said, holding the screen open. "Fair to middlin'."I sat, quiet as a church mouse caught in Sunday school, holding my. Others, they fed off of. But most of them, they brutally slaughtered. There were of course, the more fortunate ones. The ones strong and clever enough to survive. There are still hundreds of them all over the world, traveling sometimes, trying to get closer to the underground metal dome, in which the Seregech lived, in hopes of killing them off. You can't trust most of them though. If the monsters haven't already found you and killed you, a human probably will. You see, those mutated freaks are. I described him to her, and she got up and put on her shorts and one of my T-shirts.I opened the glass door again, and he stood up, good boy, and walked over to us.“Mary Fields, this is Jamie Marks. Jamie, this is my only younger sister, Amy.”She put her hand out, he took it gently and kissed the back of it. Maybe he is a romantic?From the looks on their faces, it appeared to be a match made in heaven. Neither of them had broken the initial smiles on their faces.“Does everyone here like toasted.