This too was part of her special treatment, she saw how little those not so fortunate were fed. Even though she was hungry all the time, her kind natu...e wouldn't allow her to see others suffer when she could do something about it and had shared what she was given with the girl in the next cage over. Though neither of them were punished for this, she had been moved to cage separated from the others and given even more food.Huddling under the much worn and very dirty blanket that was her only. Becca was facing me. She had a concerned look on her face. I tried to speak to her, but I struggled to find the words. “What is it?” she repeated. “Come on, you can tell me.” It was now or never. I stared into Becca's eyes as I spoke directly to her. “There's... there's something that you should know,” I told her. Becca gasped as I got down on one knee and revealed the box. Then I opened it. A diamond ring was inside the box. “Becca, I love you, and I want to spend the rest of my life. And Jeff,” Helen went on, ‘the Portal’s last coordinates check with the coordinates the team gave as their location. Do you concur, Navigator?”“Affirmative, Ma’am.”“Pilot, please take us down to hover at a thousand feet.”“Yes, My Prime. One thousand feet above the team’s coordinates,” the Pilot returned even as the image momentarily blurred before steadying without magnification this time.”“The team has some type of transportation, don’t they, General?”“Yes. A runabout — an all-terrain vehicle. ”David laughed. “I’d welcome her back in my bed anytime, Ed. On a scale of one to ten, she was a twelve.”“How did you manage to let her slip away? She find a man with a bigger pecker?”David had to chuckle. Ed was a true Texan and used all of the old-timer jargon. “You could say it was all my doing. I decided to take Diane to Cancun. We invited Shelly Conners to join us with a date. Her guy was a good-looking Texas cattleman. As you might expect, the girls decided to swap partners. I mean, what.