"Sweet dreams child, your body has lots of preparation work to do beforeyou once more wake."Curiously three miles away mere seconds later Nick stood o...tsideJackson's home and smiled as he looked up to see the bedroom light turnon and Jackson appear briefly at the front upstairs bay of his home inhis pyjamas as he closed his curtains."An early night for you too? Good show."Linda didn't wake until Sunday lunchtime when she was woken by an upsetstomach, she spent the early afternoon relaxing. He groaned in frustration.The prompt on the screen asked. "Save and Continue?" Of course," he told himself. "I've come too far to quit now."* * *Zoey spent the entire school day trying to meet up with Lance. Duringchemistry, he sat with a stranger. Zoey tried to make eye contact, butLance never looked her way. For the rest of the day, every time she triedto catch up with him, he would elude her and disappear to his nextclass.After school, she decided to meet him at home. She pulled up in front. Damn! No wonder Veronica missed it." What?" I asked as I struggled into the body part of the underarmor. It was an armored vest with padded sleeves to protect the arms once the plating was added, and never went on smoothly. I had managed to get my left arm most of the way through when Tamara spoke again."It's a raider. Or at least a ship sized for raiding rather than one of their hive spheres. The thing has almost no emissions and must have appeared in-system almost directly on the opposite. ________________________________________________________________Triot slowly awoke pain radiating through all of his body. Damn, breathing was painful, forget trying to move. Then he made the mistake of trying to move his hand, the pain that shot through him nearly made him lose consciousness.What seemed like ages the throbbing pain subsided. That's when he noticed that breathing no longer hurt. Moving his hand he had before didn't hurt either. Barely able to reach the button, he felt the.