I even woke up and went to the office in the den to check on updates on all the systems to see if there was anything new or something I had missed.Sat...rday we followed our regular routine of cleaning the house as a team and then family time. Family time that carried on through the evening; tonight was the last night we were going to be able to try to expand our family this cycle.The C5 came back from its secret flight for the agency on Sunday morning and was leaving for Africa on Tuesday with. .her hair hung loosely around her shoulders and she woremakeup...both abnormal for her. She made a lovely pasta with Bolognesesauce. As we drank and ate she told me about her life, and after about thethird glass of wine I felt comfortable enough with her to tell her aboutmine. She started to cry when I finished telling about how I wasmanipulated and tricked into changing gender and becoming bi-sexual. Istarted to cry as well, and we got up and hugged each other. Before I knewit we were sitting. I can play you and win, and my victory will be tarnished by the principal or those guys out there with the ‘make me a sandwich’ signs (there were actually guys out there like that). I can play you and lose and be the Bobby Riggs of the twenty-first century. Or I could withdraw and be called a ‘coward’ or a ‘sore loser’ for the rest high school,” he said in tears.“Oh, no!” I sarcastically started. “I got fucking paddled because of this nonsense!” I shouted at him.“I’m sorry, I never meant it to. The engineer began to tap at his tablet computer again, but she waved for him to stop.“No need, I can feel the humidity coming down the vent, it’s this way.”She picked the center tunnel, and shuffled down into the darkness, her handheld torch dimmed by a distinct mist in the stale air. The filtration system was shut down for the duration of their search of course, and the air was not being circulated as it usually would, the damp clung to her as if she were crawling through a hollow tree trunk.