He wouldn’t accept it I know, but I’m sure you will find a use for it.”N’debi turned up at the house five days later; he asked David if Martin...could accompany him to the Maasi kraal. David said that was all right by him but he must ask Martin. N’debi and Martin left the following day with two of his young warriors carrying packs on their heads.Six days later they returned herding a young bull and six fat cows ... and two young Maasi girls.That night on the stoop Martin explained, “N’debi had. "I shook my head. Hollow!? "How did that happen?" Age, that broken limb doesn't look like it was capped correctly and looks like it rot away and into the center of the tree. Any number of things may have caused it." I had no idea." Ya, we see this all the time. This is not the first tree that I have seen that was hollow." What is your recommendation on how to deal with it?"He looked it over a bit more. "Like I said before, you need to cut it down."I walked around the tree again, looking at the. Could have been anything. There are all sorts of implants. RFIDs, data chips, beacons, keys, you name it. Whatever it was looked to be a few inches long, but we're doing a lot of guess work based on the cut and the wires, very hard to know."Gene's fears began to fester. "Jesus said he was the finger on the pulse of M1. If anyone knew something, he knew it too, right? Christ ... whatever got ripped out of him could have compromised everything."Holly nodded more and more as he spoke. "Only a few. The only hint that Josh was getting was that Danny and Marsha seemed closer than ever, but that was hardly proof."You're pretty quiet over there today," Bud said from the throttle. It wasn't the first run Josh had made with Bud, even though Bud tried to leave himself off of the schedule whenever possible. Sometimes, in the summer, it wasn't always possible. "How's football practice going?" Just drills this week," Josh said, dragging himself away from his thoughts about his friends. "We break.