Dallas-Fort Worth to fall under Nicolescu, Houston-Galveston-Beaumont under Leland, San Antonio to Corpus Christi under Ibarra, El Paso to Brownsville...under Ortiz, Amarillo to Austin under Watkins,” Deputy Commissar William Hepburn concluded in the presence of his new appointees and his clerk, Annette Chambers.“Where will you go after this?” Chambers wondered aloud.“Further east. I have to get the South on a paying basis. They might not like that, being ordered around by a black man, let alone. He sighed, amazed at how quickly their bliss had transformed into this tormented state of affairs."My God! What kind of life has she known?" Do you want to tell me about it? If you are not ready to speak of it, I understand. Just know that I am a willing ear when you are ready and a broad shoulder should you need one."She found the sincerity she read in his eyes disturbing and she looked away from him once more. She lowered her eyes to the ring she wore on her hand and began to fiddle with. But it didn't taste like water at all. The rain was thicker then water, the consistency of shampoo or body wash. She opened her eyes. The rain was striking everything, golden droplets leaving little craters where it hit the sand. A nearby picnic table collapsed. The golden shower was eating through everything it touched. It's acidic! The memory of chemistry class coming to mind. But why wasn't it eating through her skin? The other cheerleaders were stirring and moaning. The rain hadn't harmed. .”“You could get a good LED screen and a DVD player with hi-fi speakers and watch symphony, ballet and opera performances. You wouldn’t even need an external connexion.”“That’s not a bad idea.”“Let us get it for you as a house-warming gift.”“Let me think it over.”One morning at the very end of November Patrick called. “Sarah’s back!”“How is she?”“She seems fine. So’s Henry. They appear to have gotten civilly married, too. As she’d rented the flat for a year, they put everything into it as a.