. that is until about eighteen months ago when his wife Helen was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer ... she finally succumbed six months later. "O...ay, what makes you think that?" I asked."Oh God Sharon, I called him this afternoon, and it was only eleven o'clock in the morning, Tucson time, and he was already slurring his words and I knew he had been drinking then when he started talking about mom ... well, he just lost it and started bawling. God honey I know that he needs help but I just. ” He wanted to regret saying it, but the warm feeling curling around his brain wouldn’t allow it. Carla giggled happily. Benny took a second to think while she waited, but then the bartender came up to the table and topped off their glasses. He told Benny he’d spoken to his friend. “Maybe you want come into bar and talk,” the bartender said, none too discreetly as he glanced at Carla. Benny took one look at his daughter and saw the disappointed expression on her face, unhappy at being kept. "This is a Hadarian slave data card!" He barked. "This is what the owners of slaves carried over five centuries ago! The cards were colored by species. Green was for Hadarian!" He looked back to Sangria. "Now where did you get it?" It's mine you bastard!" She screamed. "Ok! It's mine! I was a slave! I..." Sangria's eyes rolled into the back of her head and she collapsed onto the deck of the Runner, her body beginning to go into convulsions."Filrian!" Yuriko shouted as she dropped to the deck. Still Ashton supplied his contact with the suggestion that maybe theyshould call him first. "Whatever you have done to my friend, it hasclearly had a disturbing effect," he said.They drove South with Cody resting up against the window of the passengerseat."That is the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen," she said. "I don'tthink that I have ever noticed a sunset before, but that is wonderful." Are you hungry?" asked Ashton. "We could stop for a meal. We can findsomething plant-based if.