I should have had an inkling of what was to come, when mama-Lillian introduced me to her neighbor as Jahmes Smith. My name is Jack Smith. Where the he...l did she get that Jahmes from? We kind of went head to head. I’m still Jack Smith, common as it may be, but a lot of people call me Jahmes. I guess that is the dignified way to pronounce Jack.Mama-Lillian didn’t want to push too hard as Little Sandy had been proposed to several times an’ she was getting on towards twenty-three. She had even had. I mingled with a crowd of men and found out that most of the people were from 3 different schools. I told anyone who asked that I used to teach with a friend of Janice and now taught at Newport Harbor. I watched as Kelly carried her pitcher around and was filling glasses. I was on my third beer when I could not find my wife. She had disappeared, I found her outside dancing with a mafia type who was at least 6’4′ and shirtless. He was all over her on the dance floor he was trying to feel her. Soon the field was empty of anyone who wasn't dead or dying. Their men tried to regroup.Soon as Aric thought it was safe, he dropped the wall.He was exhausted and almost fell to his knees, but he remembered Daven and his wound.Suddenly with renewed strength he ran back to where Daven was.Daven was wide eyed and staring at his approach."Daven hold on we need to get that removed before it does too much damage to you," said Aric.Aric picked up Daven in his armor, as if he weighed nothing, and ran. It?s getting easier and easier to breathe, and I?m feeling calmer.The noise I emit has become a series of regular moans, somethingbetween the sound of a woman crying and the sound of her lovemaking,instead of the strangled chokes.?Clean her,? commands the electronic voice of a Priest King. Each oneof the aliens uses these electronic voice boxes, and yet this onestill sounds like Misk.Warm water pours over me, one bucketful and then a second, and amoment later a third. It is clear pure water,.