Monday January 2Brook was still asleep when I got up. I quietly left the room and went to make myself some tea. I was a little surprised to see Tami a...d Pam up and eating some of the fruit I’d bought yesterday. Manaia had made himself a bagel.“We surfing?” Manaia asked when he saw me.“Can I come?” Pam asked, perking up.“Sure. Go change and meet us out front.”“I want to come too,” Tami said.I’d had Manaia pick up some extra boards from Rita’s beach house for the week. Rita had already cleared my. There were a number of letters from the mortgage provider about the arrears, and more about a sizeable debt on a credit card. Simon didn't have any credit cards, she thought. There were letters from two debt collection agencies chasing him for cash accrued, another from his current account holder asking him to repay his overdraft.Then she found a stack of bank statements and she scanned them. Sure enough, his wages were paid in and then were withdrawn in cash almost immediately. Just what was. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what was I had done wrong, but I went to his office and reported in. His orderly, a corporal, checked on the intercom and then ushered me inside. “SIR, OFFICER CANDIDATE BUCKMAN REPORTING AS ORDERED!”“At ease, Buckman,” replied the colonel. There’s at ease, and at ease. I wasn’t an officer yet, so I snapped to parade rest instead. Colonel Brownell, surprised me by then ordering, “At ease, Cadet.”I lost my rigidity and looked at the colonel and noticed. ”Tabatha chuckled and came back around the machine. Smiling at the willowy blonde, she embraced her and sighed wistfully. “Mom! Mom-Mom-Mom-Mom-Mom!”“Ohhh, Katie…” Tanya whispered, hugging her dead, reborn daughter tightly against her. “I miss you so…”Tabatha laughed low in her throat – or maybe it was a sob, cut short. “If I could have come back any other way – I would choose to return as your daughter. I lived that whole lifetime not even knowing who I was. By the time I remembered, my body.