John's wife told him off for being such a grumpy bastard, but he still didn't tell. It took about..."Vicki interrupted again. "Hey, hold on. There won...t be any story left to tell." Alright, go on then." Thanks. So... the really big fight was still to come. It took Jane and Connie a couple of months, but in the end they couldn't leave it any longer, and they went to see their mother, and explained everything to her."She was stunned, and then angry, and then they really gave it to her, right. "Carl blushed slightly. "Thank you Sir." He brushed some hair off hisface and Hathaway noticed his long red nails."We were wondering whether you were going to tell us about the missionCommander?"Hathaway turned to Dominick. "It's funny you mentioned that Frankie. Iwas just going to give you and Carl the briefing. I know that you twohave been waiting for this moment. And you've probably wondered whyI've taken so long to tell you what it's all about. For securityreasons I couldn't share the. I'd expect you to react the same way if Iwanted to cut something of yours. And if I did, and it was good enough torun, you'd go over my head and win and we'd run it, and I'd probably beannoyed. But, considering that we're both a little older, and we've bothhad bad experiences with Matt, I suspect that won't happen. At least Ihope not."She stopped to consider it."Okay, I'm in. I'll meet you after school in the office. I'll try to talkShawna into coming, too."Tina thanked her, but said that she. " I'd interposed the infrared and ultraviolet blobs between Nevaeh and the crowd. Not for long enough to cause sunburn, as I'd calibrated how much I would output against the sun's output in the afternoon. I was radiating about ten times more ultraviolet than the sun does at noon, but it'd be for less than a minute. Infrared was less of a danger but I didn't want people to notice it. I could see that they were so distracted that I was able to radiate quite a lot to make sure the photographs.