Alice could only wait.Alice and Juan were going to get married. He was a friend of her father, and she had known him since she was a little girl. When...she was seventeen, he asked her to marry him, and she said yes, but they would wait until she was eighteen and had finished high school. When her parents were killed, the Bureau of Child Welfare had placed her in a group home, and on her eighteenth birthday they kicked her out. Juan had said he would go immediately to get her. She said she would. "There's no fault in the design! I don't know what caused this, but I can assure you it wasn't a design fault," he snapped."Whatever it is, we're going to be well behind schedule now. There's no way we're going to be able to get to Woden before Captain Marlon now, I just hope he can keep himself out of trouble until we do get there," said Ben."My shields should keep him safe," mused Thomas, as he wandered off to oversee the various teams that were at work.Ben decided that it was time to check. It seems our young Seer here may have picked up a passenger?" Roxanne enquired."We shall see," Morgana replied.The pressure from the Seers seemed to build and build until Abigail fell to her knees and what appeared to be a luminescence formed about her body before drifting upwards to remain above her head.'Pull her from the circle, John, quickly!' came a mental command from Seer Jemima.I ducked and grabbed Abigail under her arms and yanked her back out of the circle and left the Seers. You, the girls with whom we’ve developed friendships at the lunch table, and the soccer team have made our 9th-grade experience quite enjoyable.”Kim leaned on and over Liya and kissed him quickly on his left cheek and said, “I thank you, too, particularly for showing me by your example of how you treat us girls that I had settled for less than I think I deserve in a guy.”She inhaled deeply, then exhaled, as Liya glanced back and forth between Kim’s chest and face only inches in front of her.