“ Pamela confided to her letting her animation wink.“No, Pam!” Ellen exclaimed, “You’re not going to tell her the story.”“Why not, Ellen...“ Pamela’s face had changed into a frown.“Because I would like to tell her that, but not now. It’s just too much information for the poor kid.”“Hey,” said Natalia a little shocked, “I’m not a kid!”Ellen looked down as she realized what she just had said. She sighed before she continued with a hoarse voice, “I’m sorry Natalia. I’m afraid I’ve let myself go a. I dove through as it stopped and rolled as I pulled two pistols. I started firing into the six men stumbling around blindly. I shot each and the rounds punched through the armor they wore. I turned as I slipped the pistols back into the holsters.I used a special comp to bypass the lock and then started to use the manual crank to open the inner hatch. The others crowded in and as soon as the hatch was wide enough sonic burst spheres were pushed through. They were followed by grenades and smoke. OK? Ma'am makes me sound old.Oh, you aren't old ma'am... er... Joan, said George. In fact you look way too young to be married to Mark, he's got to be almost 60!Oh well, stuttered Joan. Thanks George. He is a little older than me, but that was a nice compliment anyway.Vincent was eating his sandwich but he was listening to the conversation and watching Joan very carefully. He realized that she had cleaned up since first answering the door this morning, which wasn't all that unexpected. Yes, she. Still there was an element of frustration from me over myinability to identify the changes or to alter my own fate.I had always followed this mantra in my old life.There were only two things I had absolute power over.I can control my own actions, and my attitude.Now I no longer felt I had sole control over my attitude, and thatinfluenced my actions accordingly.I wasn't enslaved by desire like Kevin was, but I was beingmanipulated by unseen forces nonetheless.Sometimes it felt inherently.