I blinked awake, my head felt all fuzzy and I was groggy and achey. I began to wake up, and was just thinking about what a crazy dream I’d had. My f...ce ached, and so did a few other areas. I went to touch my mouth to see what was sore, and felt a cuff around my wrist preventing me from moving. I tugged my arms and legs against the restraints, quickly realising it wasn’t a dream at all. As I collapsed back against the bed, I heard the clicking of heels from behind me, I tried my hardest to look. "We know that the Great Death is a ... well, that it's a death sentence. I'm just glad that you've managed to save so many. I'm upset that Peter and Nina weren't among them, but we've got to count our blessings where we can. If it wasn't for you, none of you would have survived," she added, indicating the group of five survivors of all the Great Death plagues."We'll talk more about that later, but for now let's focus on the party at hand," Tom said, trying to keep the gathering on target as. .. Well, the only way he could describe it was total adoration, almost awe. That made him uncomfortable. He wasn't used to seeing Makro as a fawning, almost simpering arm fob; and after only an hour or two he began to miss his overbearing, bossy and belligerent older sister. It kind of surprised him.Even so when he looked in her eyes he knew he couldn't say anything about it; it would hurt her and he would rather have his right arm cut off than hurt her, so he sucked it up and said nothing. "Here," he said handing Brandon a beer. "Thanks," Brandon nodded. "No problem," the man said as he went back to his conversation. #"That's when I saw the truck was rocking back and forth, and I knocked on the window," Daniel said. He was telling the story how he had found Mike. "This lady came out, and she had no top on, she smiled at me as she left," Daniel said excitedly. "Mike came out, and his pants were near to the floor--" "Okay, someone needs to stop," Sherry said as she put her hand.