She finished then slid apair of thin flip-flops on his feet. Then it was to the manicuretable. She cleaned his cuticles and under his nails then rou...hed up hisnails. Then it was some liquid that she said helped the glue set.He asked why glue and she told him he was getting false nails. Shesaid they were stronger than real nails and lasted forever. She hadthe long false nails glued on and had just started applying redpolish to them when Traci walked back in. She was carrying a bagand he could. " She'd been practically shaking with excitement all day, or at least since 7:45, when we met to hang out before homeroom. At 3:00, I discovered her waiting for me outside my Physics class; apparently, she had faked a bathroom emergency to get out of Economics early. Her excitement grew geometrically since then: her cheeks were brightly flushed and she only paused for a breath after every third sentence. "Oh!" She jerked her hand from mine to point at a precisely drawn line on her diagram. "And. I am bringing you a message from the man who was good enough to provide relief for some of your patients. You do not make demands on him. You do not threaten him with the cops. He is not the kind of man to let your threat go unanswered. I played the video of his wife and two kids getting in their car. Then with out warning stock footage of a bomb blast was shown.“That happens the very next time you threaten us, or if the cops come looking at us. It doesn’t matter who gives us up, we will. Don’t give me arguments about their emotional maturity, they are as mature as the other students there,” replied Ed.Not wanting to back down, Ling challenged, “So what are you saying we do?”“Send them for a year to the reservation, to give them additional life skills, and then allow them to apply to the Druid College. Both environments are safe, yet it allows them to grow,” replied Ed.His proposal was met with silence from the wives as they each considered it. They had known that he was going.