"The air regulator was working?" Yep, and he was exhaling bubbles the whole time." Good. Good ... Well, we'll just have to wait until he gets to the h...spital, then."And wait we did. The forty minutes back to the mainland base. The medic went with George to the hospital. I eventually went too, after I made sure that all the equipment was squared away, and I got changed.George eventually woke up and didn't remember much of anything about the mission or the shark ramming into him, but he was okay.. “Pete, can you take me home please?” she said in a soft voice. “I think it’s best I go home now.”I told her to have a seat and went and knocked softly on Mandy’s door. Linda opened it a crack and I caught a glimpse of a still distraught Mandy as I told her Peggy wanted me to take her home. I saw the look on Mandy’s face was panic, and Linda whispered that they would be out in a moment, and to not go anywhere.I told Peggy to relax, and that the girls would be out in a moment. I took a seat on. I had purchased it some years before in a prior host body, and receivingit again struck me with the realization of the never-ending cycle I hadembarked upon. I then beheld the other pieces I had collected, wonderingwhen they, too, would be passed back to me in a new host body.In that moment I realized the error of my ways, and recognized that themere accumulation of material goods was meaningless without the personalconnection they created. The man I inhabited would have no appreciationof the. I found it amusing, yet when you are still involved with a circle of friends, the information does not stay secret for long. I didn't involve myself with the conversation and kept relatively quite about the knowledge knowing there was nothing I could do about it or her. Yes, it did sting, but it also gave me a fit of anger that I hadn't been with anyone since we separated. Finding this knowledge almost freed me of this and I felt it was almost a mission to fuck that night.Eventually, the.