“I knew you didn’t mean Erica.”Kesi shuddered theatrically. “That mbwajike!”“Even in Swahili, you owe me a dollar.”She reached into the ...lap-covered pocket of her flight jacket and pulled out three ones and tried to hand them to him.“What’s this?”“That’s for this time, and the next two times I call Lieutenant Commander Erica bitch Yang, a mbwajike! She’s like some evil Lucy Liu.”He laughed, “And what have you got against Erica, other than she’s a condescending, selfish, narcissistic, mbwajike,. “They think I’m going out with some friends and I told them you had plans.”“Why?” he asks, feeling highly curious, but not too disappointed.“Because they wanted us to go with them,” she says, smiling. “I thought it would be more fun to fuck you than walk around some museum all afternoon.”“Good call,” he agrees.Sylvie’s smile gets bigger. She has the rest of the week to spend with her brother before going back to school. She doesn’t know how she is going to survive it, but moving back home and. Too few people are left."Other than Preservation and Protection, we only know of societies in Pintlala, Alabama, Port Lavaca and El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix, Arizona. We are allied with all of them. There are also communities in Tucson, Arizona, and in Dallas, Texas, that exist but with who we have little or no contact. If you went up the east coast, you would find it deserted except for occasional pockets of people the size of you folks or smaller."It's a different world since the Day. Some of. I'll be polite and interested but still looking around and not planning on going steady." And I sit home!" And what happens in a couple of weeks when I suggest you go out with me rather than one of them? Will your parents raise any objections?" I don't think so." Would that happen if I told them I was taking you out on Friday and Saturday nights?" They'd probably find we were spending the weekend at Grandma's and hadn't let me know; then they'd make a hasty call when we weren't around." And if.