“I thought you might enjoy it, so I left it in your new contract,” Rita said.“I appreciate that.”“Trip wants you to stop by the beach house ...his evening. He said Craig Wild is coming by and would like to see you,” Halle said.I turned an enquiring eye on Halle.“You wouldn’t know where my jeans went, would you?” I asked.“I didn’t pack those,” she said defiantly. “I thought we agreed that you weren’t going out in public looking like a farm boy.”“Blue jeans don’t make me look like a farm boy. If I. Yeah, I remember: it was Berrry'sbrother Mins. He hooked up with three of the Girls and then got unhookedup with them, but he said his big brother should continue on in the RealWorld and he would continue their family traditions in the Complex." So what happened to Alice?" Oh, man! The whole book could have been about Alice! She was so messed upby all the Changes and the experiments and her love for Keela, and herlove for Will, and her love for the Complex even with everything that wasmessed up. With one final goodnight for her father, Adrienne followed him. Wayne smiled to himself after the pair left. It was good to see Adrienne so happy. He'd let that goofy mutt spend every night with her if it kept the smile on her face. Wayne and Adrienne were still recovering from the shock of Susan's sudden death. She had been an excellent mom and a loving wife, and it seemed too cruel that God or fate or whoever controlled these things would take her away. The brain aneurism had struck so. Turning, he saw one of the guards, an obnoxious grunt called Vig, who had frequently been caught urinating on one of the outer barrier posts, being thrown across the transept in a cloud of blood and other ... parts by a huge carnivore. The other guards, whom he suspected were running a blimmu school, had been using Vig as a lookout and had grabbed weapons only to be overwhelmed by a mass tide of unstoppable violence.Frunt, though being naïve, was no fool and immediately ran to the hoped for.