This still fascinated the aliens, as their sharp, hooked claws meant that they had no use for eating utensils. All of the aliens had been warmer towar...s him since his ... encounter the previous night. Perhaps word had traveled that their human guest had finally taken part in their sordid rituals, or maybe they could smell the pheromones of their kin on his skin. Either way, even the members of the pack that he had not been formally introduced to were keen to get their hands on him now.He didn’t. This was to minimize the risk of damage in the case of enemy troops entering the troop bay.The turret mounted the main armament of a long barreled 120 mm smooth bore cannon and a 25 mm chain gun as a sealed unit above the main hull armor. The fully automated turret included 100 rounds for the cannon and 25,000 rounds for the chain gun. The other armament consisted of three 25 mm chain guns in remote weapons stations loaded with 25,000 rounds each: two mounted just in front of the main turret. .. Kate had learned from her efforts on the phone that Grand Bemuda was in a state of emergency; that any help would be a long time coming! Some places on the Island were already devastated and more was expected before the storm was finished. The advice she was given boiled down to hunkering down as best as possible and hoping for the best until the hurricane passed on. Kate left Guy in the Van and went out to tell Winston what she’d learned.The storm had calmed slightly, and she found him near. Unfortunately, I had him in seventh period, right before athletics, which meant the senior health class stank of testosterone and Axe-Body spray, and the students were interested in anything and everything else other than health.I live in Wallowa, Oregon, a small town where abstinence-only education lives where it belongs: homeschool and those creepy polygamous compounds in the middle of the wilderness. At Wallowa Senior High School, as with all public schools in the state, health class focuses.