Still lying there. The detectives had removed and bagged what was left of the shredded jeans that had been thrown over her lower body. The department ...rime scene photographer was taking pictures. "Someday they might be part of a cold, sterile and unfeeling lecture in the Academy like the ones I attended." He said aloud but to himself."Not exactly what she had planned to do with her life." He thought. Then he wondered, "What had she planned to do with her life? Had she gone to college? What. " Just then I felt a cool chill all around us and realized Kaleigh felt it too as she shivered but not from the air conditioning. Before I could say anything about it, the Energists reentered our minds and our 'world'. We both became filled with a combination of overwhelming love for each other and also with a bottomless dread as we wondered whether this was indeed the last time we'd ever be given the opportunity to make love together."God I both love and hate how the Energists have given us. Except for two classmates who had gone early to their eternal rewards, I was probably the farthest away of any of us. I was working on the Botticelli’s cattle ranch, a job I’d fallen into thanks to an Army buddy. A lot of ‘regular’ employers weren’t really interested in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, I guess that they thought we were all PTSD cases who’d shoot up their businesses, but ranch labor in Nevada was simply a matter of going out to a ranch and asking for work. If they needed help, and. We talked about when it would be available (right now), how long we could get the lease for (the end of November), and what we needed to do to rent it (fill out the paperwork Melissa had bought with her). We walked back to the agency, completed the paperwork, and I told her that we would be back around noon tomorrow to pay the bond and the first month’s rent.“Can we go back there and have another good look at it?” Lori asked, and Melissa gave her the keys, saying we could drop them back in the.