Her hand immediately pressed the button answering it. “Cap’in!” she cried over the comm keeping a tough attitude.“HM3 Jolie, status report, we...lost your signal as soon as you entered the cave.”“Skipper, we met with hostile forces, a lot of them. They tore my team apart. I’ve gotten to a part of the cave where I’m safe and can get through I guess.”“Jolie, I don’t know how you got there but you are literally so deep into the cave you’ve passed the lead zone. You’re deep in the ground. I’m sending. Their economy is designed around visitors. Whether simply passing through via the ocean, driving along the interstate Pacific Coast Highway, or attracting visitors outright for the surfing, bed-and-breakfasts, or other not-so-quaint beach activities, the town regularly had hundreds to thousands coming and going every day. Here, if people disappear, it was much easier to make it look like they had simply went on their way rather than something unfortunate that might alert authorities.It had only. Jamie had gym today, but he adamantlyrefused to change into his gym clothes in the locker room with the otherboys. He finally said he wasn't feeling well, but he looked fine. Wesent him down to the nurse, who said he did not have a fever andotherwise looked completely normal, except that he was agitated. We toldhim that he had a choice - get changed and join the other boys in gymclass, or we would have to call you down to school. He immediately saidhe wanted you to come down."Jasmine said,. " he said and minced out into the salon.Well that was a weird one. I thought that he had spotted that I was a transitioning transsexual, but no. He'd gone away thinking I was a lesbian instead. I wasn't sure which was worse. Was there a 'worse' and under the circumstances, did it matter?I suppose both were true and I certainly didn't like the idea of the 'little miss home maker', so I settled for lesbian.Weird.I would have argued until I was blue in the face that I wasn't gay at school and yet.