Millie breaks away from the hug, and helps me push the luggage cart towards the exit. She seems to be in a bubbly mood, talking about how great it is ...o see me again, how I look so grown up, and how excited her and my dad are that I will be spending my summer with them.I smile and nod, inputting the occasional comment where it seems appropriate, and think that this was hardly my decision, but that my mom had grown tired of her 18 year old son deciding to spend his last summer before college. Even though hearing that Narth did something that affected him, I knew instantly and without doubt he was safe and well.Stahl had not stopped talking to me, so I backed the recording up a few moments and started it again. He said. “ ... return.” and then continued. “The Devastator is on the way to Checkpoint 96 and our current ETA is fifteen days from when I made this recording.” I checked the displayed chronometer date and compared it with actual time and found that the Devi would arrive in. "Why, we'd be honored to join you!" The man couldn't resist shaking my hand. "Everyone in the Valley has heard about you folks! Word's got around, I can tell you. Nobody wants to mess with the folks from the Citadel! I'm Arnie Grover, this here's Millie. Don't know her last name. The shy one yonder, that's Sammy Downs. Me and her folks knew each other before the sickness. That Millie just sort of showed up one day. Don't talk much, but she's a worker. This here is Clay Nance. Used to be on the. Maybe drink all the beer? Then a smile crept across her face as she headed inside for her phone and found the number she was looking for.“Chase? It’s Allison. What are you up to tonight?”Mark returned a few hours later from his date in a foul mood. Julia had made out with him, and had let him feel her up a bit, but that was it. She wasn’t that type of girl, she informed him. He got the impression that if they were dating, it would be a different story, but he didn’t really want to put the.