" I stop in shock. I sound like a woman! "What have you doneto me!" I demand pushing through the shock."Balanced the books," the first creature chuckl...s."This is fucked up!" I scream. "You can't just leave me like this!" We can and we must," the second creature tells me."How would we look if you were processed and found defective." Oh no! We wouldn't want that!"I pick myself up and ask them out of curiosity. "What would happen to meif that happened?" It's asking impertinent questions of us. Do. There was some conversation in Spanish, which Icouldn’t follow, but they kept that to a minimum. Aboutan hour and a half later, they dropped me off at myhotel and I wandered up to my room to collapse, stoppingin the lobby to get a daily paper. Up in the room Ichecked the TV channels — outside of the Spanish-language programs there was just HBO, MTV and a Sonychannel showing a variety of sitcoms. I looked throughthe ads in the paper but didn’t see anything ofinterest, then. ” He looked at Weasel. “I trust I have an overwatch team assigned? One of at least squad strength?”“We’re going to send two squads commanded by a staff sergeant out with you,” Weasel told him. “We’ve had some recent issues with the homers known as the Shiloh and their well is just a few hundred meters from the edge of their village.”“Issues?” Tumult asked.“They were the group that was making cholera and sending it downstream to enemy homers,” Gath said. “Perhaps you heard about that?”“Ahh,”. ” “OK, so be home at 7 and have a sandwich on the way, “ she said.”I will have things ready when you get home. We are going to try something very different tonight. It will fulfill one of my greatest fantasies.” “Can you give me a hint?” “Think back to last Friday. That is all I will say,” She said. With that I went off to work. The day was difficult because I was so distracted by what I anticipated for that night. Finally, I could leave and drove through traffic to one of our favorite sub.