Moreover, he was on the other side of the country. "I don't know how I can save him, I can't FLOAT that far, and it is going to happen any minute." Me...issa thought quickly and gave me the first idea that came to her mind."Concentrate, you could try to imagine the shooter or just the bullet and try and stop it. Just use all your strength and concentration." I nodded, although I felt a wave of nausea wash over me, I did not share Melissa's confidence in my powers to stop what would happen. I. .. but...They're good. Jane thought with pride, far better than I was as a Rook. Maybe better rookies than any of us were. She glanced around the hangar, its huge space littered with the nine docked ships of each of her rookies in addition to the one she was sitting on. When she saw that Tess was using the wrong tool to clean the lower thrust drive, Jane waited for a moment, watching out of the corner of her eye. She didn't have to say a word; within a few moments Jackson tossed his mecaspanner. "You mean that's what was breaking up your marriage?" asked Velvet, shocked. "It was your wife playing around on you?" Not only that," the man said glumly, "she was fooling around with other women. If she'd been getting a little on the side from some other man - or men - I'd've had some idea how to fight back. But she was sneaking out and screwing around with women. She'd a goddamn lezzie, and now she's got to you, too!" Now wait just a goddamn minute!" flared Velvet. "That's not the way it is. Mark's "taking the bullet" for Angela is the 11th time he's rescued her. Instead of recognition, all he got was slander and abuse. Having been neighbour to Mark and Angela since their birth, and having witnessed or taken part in most of the events described below, I feel obligated to tell Mark's story. It seems uncertain now that he will ever regain consciousness, and I am again hearing disparaging remarks against his character, so I wish to set the record straight.1990The first incident.