Physical Properties: Undergoes spontaneous dehydrolysis (weeps) at absolutely nothing, and freezes at a moments notice. Totally unpredictable. Melts w...en properly treated, very bitter if not well used. Found in various states, ranging from virgin metal to common ore. Non-magnetic but attracted by coins & sports cars. In its natural shape the specimen varys considerably, but it is often changed artificially so well that the change is indiscernable except to the experienced eye.Chemical. The unreturned text messages. It had all driven the stake even deeper into her heart. Rachel’s stomach clenched tightly as she again pondered just how easily her current utopian reality could’ve gone a very different way. She’d been wandering in the darkness for so long and the awful day after Kevin’s prom had dropped her to the canvas in a crumpled, emotionally-bloodied pulp. Had it not been for her miraculous chance meeting and subsequent reconciliation with Rebecca, she might never have. It did not last. The next morning she heard and then saw the cattle trucks taking her bullocks away. She fled to her room and cried her heart out. When she emerged she went to the kitchen to make herself a mug of tea. Hal had realised that she would see the trucks and be upset again so had waited in the kitchen for her to emerge. He smiled gently and sympathetically at her.That was too much for her and her eyes filled again. Almost without thinking Hal took her in his arms and held her gently. By the time it reached one thousand feet, the airport grounds were behind them. Jo turned right, following the field's egress pattern, and two minutes later they were over the outlying suburbs of Hobart, Tasmania, still climbing. At twenty-five hundred feet, they were out of the field's airspace. Jo engaged the autopilot, which had been programmed to bring them up to eight thousand feet of altitude and follow the GPS course to their destination: the small town of Devonport on the northern coast.