Since a comment in one of the past chapters made a good point, there’s something I need to tell you, readers. Although it’s very bad of me make yo... wait so long, I do need to tell you what the characters look like. Originally, my idea was to just let you use your imagination, but I know some people don’t like doing that all that much.Jeremy is somewhat tall, with dark brown hair. His glasses are black and not too thick. As for his clothing, that’s something you can picture yourself unless I say. “This ship is equipped with a state of the art Auto Doc Sick bay; the first thing I did was a detailed med scan. Your device is long gone, Kermac. You are nothing but predictable and I expected such a device ever since I woke in the Coffin.”The Agent of the Worm suddenly emitted two bright beams from his eyes and the Kermac Wizard collapsed, much of his head burned to ashes. “The Equation has changed and so has the parameters of my assignment. I hope we can come to an agreement.”“I see you have. There was one speech I gave, which I began using with lots of military groups in the future. I was asked to say some words to a group of senior non-coms who had seen their last war. The Army was still downsizing, and the Gulf War had been their last hurrah. I was expected to say fine things and thank them for their dedicated service, and I did that of course. Then I added an extra.“Now I am going to close this by saying that your nation is not done with you. Some of you came into the Army as. I looked under her mattress, in her desk, in her bureau; nothing. I started digging through the mess of crap Lisa has on the top shelf of her big walk-in closet. I went through stacks of DVDs, CDs, clothes I've never seen her wear. It occurred to me, and not for the first time, that our little girl has life too easy.When my fingers felt the slick surface of a batch of glossy photos my heart quickened. I pulled down the stack and found about a dozen pictures of... my little Lisa.In each picture.