Sorry... no I'm not really that excited." "But we'll get to ski! And aren't you happy we'll get to spend some time together?" Came Lynn's quick retort... Nick smiled and ruffled his little sister's hair and said, "Yeah yeah we'll have fun." Lynn perked up and said, "Hey, do you want to hypnotize me while we wait on the rest of the family?" Nick smiled again. His little sister often offered to let him practice hypnotism. He found her to be pretty suggestible. He had found that using hypnotism you. See my dad always goes hunting the week before thanksgiving, and last fall my bother took time off to go with him. Connie being between jobs came to stay with us, as the men folk went hunting, that's the way she put it. Anyway I had just turned 18 but my dad wouldn't let me go hunting just because I kind of wiped out mother's car, I rolled it twice. I was making up for lost time with Connie with dad and my brother gone when Friday come around, I skipped my last two classes to spend more time. There. I said it. It seemed as if a tremendous weight was lifted off of my shoulders. On the other hand, I could just eliminate all of the melodrama and just say it felt good. And it did. It felt good. "You know, I think the two of us had sensed we both loved each other, but both of us knew of the impending repercussions. On one hand, you are looking forward to law school at the U of A, while on the other hand, I'm planning to get my masters degree at UC Berkeley," she told me, reaching up to. "Another inbound, Matt. It's a big mother fucker, too!"She put it on the screen as soon as it was in range. I heard Aleea gasp and say something in her native tongue and looked to Keeli. Her eyes were wide as she answered my unspoken query. "She said that it's the Kraal, and that we are dead. I am afraid that Aleea is quite correct."A few questions revealed that the Kraal were vicious beings who enslaved anyone they found and destroyed anything they couldn't capture. The Borealan ship was.