.. mission of ours rests squarely on both of your shoulders. We can’t afford for you to screw with Al’s mind. With his tendency to run headlong in...o dangerous situations, you’ll kill one of us, possibly him. Then where will you be?” She paused, glancing skyward before continuing. “We’ll switch cars to give each of you space. You’ll ride with me, while Al rides with Gary. That makes more sense, since it’s hard to provide protection from different vehicles. If we’re separated, we’ll all be more. As they lay together following the last time, their breathing returning to normal, the room darkened as if a cloud had crossed the moon. Richard looked towards the window and could see that the sky still looked clear, stars making hard points of bright white in the blue-black. Then a tendril of mist slid across the landscape and the moonlight dimmed. More and more of the fog continued to flow until only occasionally would the moon shine into the room as he drifted back to sleep.Morning. Gray. ”They had their arms around each other and tears were running down their cheeks when Hope spoke again. “You said you set up college funds for our siblings, can mother access those?”“No,” I replied. “That was my doing rather than her wishes though. She said she wanted enough to put her kids through college and live comfortably for life. We quickly noticed that she was careless with money, so I had my accountants set up their college funds to only be accessible for payment of college expenses or. In addition to my name and the apartment address, there were air freight company labels and a picture of a hammock on the box. I managed to carry the box inside and was unpacking the hammock components when Charlie came home."Where are you going to put it?" he asked."In my bedroom," I answered as I looked over the assembly instructions."It won't fit," he declared.We had to move my desk, computer stand and bed, but we found space for the hammock near the windows.The next day was my twenty-first.