( an other thing we had in common. He had no mother, I had no father) after both our parents talked, he was dropped off Friday night. We ran around th... backyard, climbed some trees, we came inside to eat, have our baths and roll out our sleeping bags in front of the t.v. Mother went to bed, making sure we had snacks and drink to last awhile. We watched some movies, then found a channel that wrestling was on. After watching a few matches, we decided to take the couch cushions off and lay them. For the first time in years, I didn’t have a gun. All of them did.” “Wash,” Jackie whispered, her heart thudding hard and heavy in her chest. “They shot us. Amber didn’t live. I did.” She stopped walking. He turned around. “You asked. That’s it. Anyway, it was a long time ago.” Not long enough. The shadows under his eyes could attest to that. Not to mention that he walked her home after every game, ignoring her “it’s only three blocks” protests. He didn’t care that she kept a knife in her. And,of course, much more fun for Greta.She knew that she was a very disgusting specimen of the human race. Farfrom being ashamed, she had studied ways to use her dreadful skills to goodadvantage, and had proven her ability to the Group some years ago, reducingcaptured Slovack girls to obedient sex slaves without leaving a mark on theirbodies.Earning trust had moved her up from being an enforcer to becoming thechief interrogator, privy to some very private information, yet trusted to keepher. " We all know that after Angela's trip to the hospital we learned of some new effects of the change and some other possible effects, all of which opened the door to a lot of questions. Since then I managed to run most of us through new tests as well as some others you had all suggested, trying to run down a lot of the new possibilities. After we ran the tests Angela and I have been working on trying to make sense of it, and we have come up with some, but not all, of the answers to the new.