He heard some laughing outside and when he looked, he saw acouple of the neighbor kids. Carl and Lisa, brother and sister fromdown the street. They we...e younger than Phil so he never played withthem. They passed by going on to their final destination, possibly thepark or school playground. Phil didn't care one bit either way.Phil was brought back to reality when he noticed Cindy standing infront of him. Her arms crossed and a mad look on her face. She justseemed to appear out of the blue.. Your dad and I are coming.”“You don’t have to. It’s five…”“We’re coming. Bye!”Tyrell made it. He whipped the car into a spot and sprinted through the doors. He explained to the receptionist what was going on. She asked him to have a seat. Instead he paced nervously.Five minutes later, a gray-haired man with a scraggly beard wearing scrubs came out. The news was dire. Nicole was dead on arrival. The internal injuries sustained were just too great. They tried, They really tried.Tyrell slumped. Soon it occurred to me that they were fishing. They wanted me, yes. But more than they wanted me, they wanted the technical excellence my friends and I had. They wanted bigger and more shocking effects. They wanted to top everything that had been done before. My problem was that I had learned to value quality over quantity. Content over hypocrisy. Love over matter. Well, maybe the last one. It was not suitable, here.I made sure that I looked interested, and they gave me permission to hang. They inhabit the southern areas of the Titia-Lohr landmass and have come to be the most able mariners in the world, creating societies with ridged systems of honor and formality to contain their vast potential for lethality. They have extraordinary eyesight, subsonic hearing, and resemble rough-hewn, larger versions of the extinct Human race, of whom Wassilian was fond before their extinction.Nultrites (nŭl-trīts): A race of short, furred people, the People of Nultra are sleek and very swift.