" Sleeping on the couch?" I narrowed my eyes and my brother nodded. "Great."So Mom and Dad had another fight, that figures. Mom had gone out the night...before, I knew that. Dad said she'd gone with some friends or something, her friend Stacy, and she was almost okay. I'd called her Aunt Stacy for a long time, until I'd gotten old enough to know she wasn't related to me at all and just one of my mom's friends. The woman wasn't married or anything, just a different boyfriend every time I saw her.. [B1]The test is quite easy. (you are quite knowledgeable)[B2]You have problems with it, but you manage. (you are quite smart)[B3]The written part of the exam is quite difficult for you. (you concentrated on physical aspect of training)Next part is a practical test during which your taijutsu (hand to hand combat), genjutsu (illusions) and ninjutsu (energy techniques) are evaluated. While you can perform the basic 3 academy jutsu without a problem (transformation, bunshin and substitution), you. After nine days and four hundred and fifty miles of travel on the Juruá, they had finally reached the point at which they would leave the comfort of their riverboats and begin the last, and most arduous, part of their trip, the overland trek. They pulled their riverboats into a small quiet tributary until it turned a bend and the boats would not be seen by anyone traveling the main river.There they anchored them firmly to large trees front and rear and on each side so they would not drift away.. Damn, gotta’ get out of this homo-swooning mode and keep it in mind that Hybrids are dangerous opportunists. And then, double-dangerous because they usually appear when the biggest of the big killdogs are circling. But there’s been no evidence of killdogs up here in the mountains, thank God. We’re a half-day from reaching the crevasse jog and the sun's setting. I’ve set our night-camp inside a mass of brambles knowing that the Hybrids likely know where we are, but there’s nothing that can be.