“Well done, soldier. You can see your Contessa is pleased. Back to your post.”“Si,” Contessa Maria told them. “You have done well.”Smiling... the two guards rounded the corner back toward the residence. Ramirez came running from the administrative wing, gun in hand and pointed downward, toward them. He stopped when he saw Maria break their embrace and take hold of Susan’s hand.“Contessa,” he said to Maria. “I heard a cry.”Maria beamed.“Si, Generalissimo. A very important friend has arrived. This. She looks so sweet, innocent and naive with her collar done all the way up, a crucifix adorned around her neck.He asks her if she is a devout Catholic. She asks him to explain. Dave asks, " You know, how do you feel about all that abortion stuff, and birth control that the pope is always talking about." Well, birth control is wrong because the only people who should be doing that stuff are married couples, and if God wants them to have a baby, then so be it. And I think abortion is wrong. It. If I were a lucky person, I would’ve ended up with Kayleigh, or Soo-Lin, or any of the handful of other girls.But no. Logan.He caught my eye over the hubbub of Mackenzie revealing that she’d pulled Jackson out of the hat – the girls were location-appropriately making noises that came close to bat frequency, and I winced – and grinned into his bottle of beer.That grin made him look five years younger than he was – therefore he landed on roughly 16. Good grief. I wondered if he had finished. The inevitable disapproval of some of heractions - such as sneaking into the rally - and of keeping the whole thinga secret from them. Their disappointment that she had felt the need tohide all of that from them. The concern over what she had been through,and what she faced. And the support that only a family can give. By the time she dragged herself up to bed, she had some answers. She couldanswer her friends with the news about her MORFS and limited descriptionof her powers. She could point.