She was drowning! She’d never swum before. She was just catching on to paddling around when she noticed someone, or some thing, had its attention o... her. And it was approaching fast. Lisa picked up an image of her feet churning in the water. Along with that image was the knowledge of how wonderful her twitching legs were going to feel sliding down its throat.‘Holy shit!’ Lisa thought, and frantically levitated straight up out of the water.She looked down to see a huge, tooth-filled maw. "Dear lord," Lucy chuckled. "What?" the two girls asked. Chloe looked over their cards wondering what Lucy was going on about. "It?s my turn. You can only lay down on your turn, so your phases don?t count yet," she smiled sweetly, "but thanks for letting every body see what phase you?re going for." Lana grimaced while Lois cursed grabbing her cards.After a little contemplation Lucy picked a card from the deck and discarded one. Clark glanced at his phase card wondering what he should do. He had. " Well... ," said Cromartie, clearly loathe to cut short his fulsome praise of his captain's maneuvers. "The rest, I'm afraid, is the bad news. We're still six hours short." What does that mean?" Heisinger pressed. "That we'll have to endure six hours' worth of the nova's radiation? Can we stand it?" Well, actually yes, we could," the mate told her. "The ship itself offers some shielding, and the first wave will be mostly gamma rays, we'd all have a pretty sharply increased risk of cancer. "Yeah, really? Tell me..." leaning forward. "Tellme, who's the girl?"I heard him laughing as I stalked out.****You always worry, can they see? Is there something, maybe the wayyou've let your hand relax or your wrist bend, despite all the timesyou've caught yourself and clenched your fingers, straightened thecurve. Something -- the way you hold a hand to your mouth? Or tilt yourhead? Why do you hook your knees together when you sit: ankle onkneecap, remember? Yes they are thin arms; still why.