Thanks for coming.”Gerald left and drove the two-and-a-half hours home lost in thought. Dad had been right. Just keep your nose clean and your head ...own and stay away from guns.Jeff died later that winter.G2 heard something he didn’t recognize in the noise of the crowded street. The bumping throb hit him in the chest and made his lungs vibrate. It didn’t seem to affect anyone else around, but it forced G2 to a wall for support. He must be crazy, thinking there was an earthquake when no one else. It had only been a few months since they had really become friends. Jade was everything to her in a friend sense, and bordered on something different entirely in other ways. While her nostrils flared at the memories that Jade and her had shared, her mind was drifting towards Beck.She didn't hate Beck. A lot of the others, Jade especially, thought she should, but she didn't. He was just misguided and he made some bad decisions. She knew he wasn't himself at the end, feeling sympathy for what. Now she knew what she had to do, or what she wanted to do to helpless little Lux.Katarina moved her face closer to Luxs and kissed her lips. Lux opened her eyes open as she felt something soft and warm on her lips instead of cold metal in her chest. She saw what Katarina was doing and couldnt believed it. She closed her eyes, not wanting to believe that this is happening. She blushed hard. Her hopes of escaping this unexpecting event were lost as she had no mana left. She tried resisting the. The Book of Bel'dar suggests its population was only about 100,000 before the war, 2% of the present size of five million. By current law, both the world capital and the Priesthood contain one fifth of the world's population.It took the Earth several hundred years to recover from the war. Two of the most serious isotopes in the fallout were cesium-137 and strontium-90. They both have half-lives of about 28 years. It also took several centuries for the ozone layer to recover from being destroyed.