A new uniform was laid out on the bed.I held my head and whispered.”Narth?”There was no answer and somehow I knew I was alone. But I was in the do...m and my uniform was laid out. I was not on a transport to Brisbane.What had changed?I all felt like in a bad dream but I intended to end it once and for all and quit. I got dressed and made my way to the Commander’s office. I remembered the alien device I had in my head and the prospect that I was going to commit suicide was frightening. Narth was. Please.” I waved on my friends and he waited until the whole room was cleared and followed the last student to the door and locked it. My heart started to pump faster. “Is this really it.” My mind pondered. “Is this how Grace Maria Rose loses her “flower”? To the perfect Dr. George Miller? Does he really want a chubby, tall, brunette? Why hasn’t he said anything?” He walked closer to me and roughly whispered, “Grace, have you any idea how close I came to losing my job about twenty minutes ago?”. She didn't rat on us when we took our model airplanes up on the roof of the house, lit them with lighter fluid and threw the planes into the air to watch them crash and burn. She never stole the Playboy either even though she knew where it was hidden.But, out in public? With Speedo's sister? I would rather be caught in my underwear at the family reunion; the teenage embarrassment would have been less.Speedo played it cool though. He wiped the grease from his hands with a napkin and spoke. “No one ever said the road to salvation was easy!” he joked. This, in fact, was the first joke he’d made all afternoon in the dispiriting and daunting procession of streets and doorsteps . Most of his conversation had been with the people they were petitioning and focused on his incredulity at the evolution heresy, his horror at the practice of abortion, and, more topically, his rejection of war, for whatever purpose, even in the heathen Middle East. Nevertheless, Judith grabbed at this small.