Very sad. They miss a lot of pleasure.’ ‘Leah sure seemed chipper, like she didn’t want things to be too quiet,’ mused Dan. ‘Leah likes you ... lot. She wants you to be happy here,’ said Dafna. ‘She hopes we are having fun. Leah just feels a little anxiety with visitors, until she knows they are OK. We get that way of thinking from our mother.’ ‘God bless Jewish mothers. Where would we be without them?’ Dan asked. They ate in silence. The food and the lulling wind, mixed with the early. " Both of the holograms smiled and nodded to Derrick as they opened fire on the almost completely immobile fleet. "Primary," came the voice of Lucy, "they are starting to override the dampening programs we blanketed them with. I estimate they will break free in 10 minutes, 20 seconds." "Thank you Lucy, remodulate the programs and blanket them again, this time at a higher frequency it should hold them a bit longer. Derrick watched as over half the fleet was blown away, well he thought a good. . how's Sydney?" She'll be okay. I sent her home," Bea told me. She paused, then slipped into her fake cornpone lilt and began to explain."That girl, she done built a big ol' wall around her heart after her husband went and got hisself killed in da war. And she ain't never let no one in. That is, 'til a certain, well-endowed young rogue done gone an' slipped right by her defenses," she said with a laugh."Now," she continued, "she has to go figger out what she'n done wants ta' do about it. And. People are gonna totally lose their shit over this, Ithought. I didn't count on the same kind of support I'd gotten when Mikewas after me, though. Heidi was still one the path to becoming Queen ofDelacroix High and despite my recent popularity, I was still consideredpretty outre. Also that very same popularity had been provisional, nomistaking that. So I was pretty sure the jocks who liked me before weregoing to side with Heidi, because she was part of their tribe and GoldenGirl. Most of.