He could still see the panties, but they began to blur, and inside seconds Jade was there, wearing them. It wasn’t his bed, though, that he could s...e, but the bed in Jade's bedroom - the room he had not long left. His imagination took over entirely……….Jade was there, lying on her bed in her school uniform. Her sister Katy was out. Jade was reading a book, lying on her back, and Jim was there, in the room, but somehow invisible. Certainly Jade thought she was alone, because as she read the. I used to steal her baton andpractice. I used to try to copy what she learned at ballet class,twirling, gymnastics. Everything she did before she turned to sports."Mom laughed and said, "Becky would kill for your athleticism, andyou'd kill for her girly-girl childhood. Life's not fair, I suppose." "No, it isn't, Mom," I said.She kissed my forehead and said, "I love you, dear. But you betterget going; it's getting near dinner time."I smiled, left, went home and ate with the Gardners.In the. " She loved to walk around naked in Berkeley's apartment and would stay naked when Felix and Romy were around. She would lay around languidly. She would drink whiskey quietly and smoke cigarettes, like a cat on the sofa, while the company laughed and joked and smoked marijuana. But when one of the others looked at her, they almost always caught her brightly taking everyone in. There was a light in her eyes almost all the time. When Felix and Jodi were at Berkeley's and it was just the four of. The strain of being around so much malice and hate was starting to tell on him. Kagome projected soothing thoughts when things got really bad, but even she was showing the effects. They had to camp outside the city to get any sleep at all. As for learning the enemy's plans, things weren't going very well at all.Whatever report the team they'd hitched a ride with had given, it had obviously been transmitted from the ship. "Their" female and her male cohorts had gone into a crŠche of some sort.