. . arms wrapped around each other, sighing and cooing as our ardor wound down into a warm intimate closeness. Once again birdsong and the hum of inse...ts rose out of the sighing of the Summer breeze, and the steady, playful splashing of the waterfall.That was when we discovered the worms. . .I don’t know what they were. . . some larval water critter, alien sex worms from Mars, miniature leeches? Maybe a quarter inch long, perhaps a sixteenth of an inch across, their appearance was like a small. She felt she had no choice of her own. She went downstairs again, checked the locks and put oyt the lights.These actions were almost automatic. But her return to the room nowallocated to her was at a snail's pace. She set the alarm clock to ringat half past six, undressed, put on her nightie and got into bed. It wasa long time before she went to sleep in those unfamiliar surroundings andshe woke with a start when the alarm went off.Her mind was clear however on what she had to do and at half. Dad wiped the water and hair from my face, as I slowly opened my eyes. I was shivering and he smiled down at me, my teeth chattering, as I tried to grin back at him."Hi," he said with a big warm smile."... h-hi b-back," I stuttered.Dad ran his hands up and down my arms, trying to calm me down. I looked around and saw I was standing in water up to my chest. I shivered and he pulled me to him, hugging me closely. I leaned my head against his chest, my teeth still chattering."That wasn't so bad. Yellowstone did a Mt. St. Helen's, taking out large parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, setting off every stressed fault line this side of the Smoky Mountains in the bargain.Almost all of California was missing. With that I kissed goodbye to the suit and dress shoes I'd salvaged and dove back in to Target for a pair of construction boots. I figured that I was going to get called up quick, having mustered out of the Navy as a communications Warrant Officer 5, so I started to high-tail it over.