This provided little comfort to the operators of the batteries as they were designed to shoot aircraft and not missiles. They had to silently curse as...the missiles sped by their locations intent on their path of destruction. They would strike in just under a minute.In Eden's Command Center Tarifa's eyes were wide as she and the techs watched on their huge screens the approach of the missiles."They're locked on the power generators for the shield! They must be homing in on the unique power. " Son, I am saying that and then some. I know what your day has been like. My day was the same as yours. We don't have to finish this conversation tonight. As long as I know you are okay with what happened, then I will rest well." Mom, I am more than okay with what happened. All day long I was hoping against hope that it might happen again." Well, then, my fine young man, I suggest you go make sure your sisters are preoccupied enough with their studies or whatever they are up to, then come. My father didn't only hurt Mommy. I haven't told anybody, yet - but he tried to ... do it to me a few days before we ran away."Mom took Amy and Carrie to the mall. I stayed home to work on a school project. My father came home screaming and yelling because my mother wasn't there to wait on him. When he saw me working at the kitchen table he started in on me. He was so angry for no reason."When I didn't respond to his screaming, he jerked me out of the chair, held me down across his lap and. ’ ‘It seems we have much in common then, Jareth,’ Raina smiled. She took the last bite of rabbit from his plate and fed it to him, then set the plate in the dirt beside hers. Getting to her feet, Raina extended a hand. ‘Come. I will read your cards while we are waiting on the bathwater to warm, then you may bathe and rest.’ Jareth accepted her hand to help him to his feet. Patting the small leather money pouch on his side, he looked at her questioningly. ‘How much do I owe your tribe for the.