’ More images surrounded God and the couple. Many of the images brought more tears: graduations, Little League baseball games, homecoming dances, sc...ool plays. Not all were positive. There were the teenage fights, the time they caught him smoking and the incident involving the cat and a razor. As the scenes from their lives played back, the couple became younger. Age lines faded, and the grey hairs disappeared. The last scene that played was the first time they held their newborn son. For one. One time I even went to a motel with three boys. And those fuckin' assholes bragged and told everyone in school about it. It was a small school, and pretty soon, word got around that I was an easy fuck, and I got a reputation as a slut."I couldn't live my reputation down, and everyone treated me like shit. I left that town and moved to Des Moines. When I got a job as a cook, one of the waitresses started coming on to me. And since I was always attracted to girls anyway, I let her take me to. Presently, the group was spread parallel to the layer some fifty klicks off.Denny and Polack assisted by Peregrin and William began calibrating instrumentation for use in hard space using the Chencon rate of advance of one eighty gravs as the gold standard. Use of the third 'puter allowed the quartet to more accurately calculate distances against signal returns. U93, U96 and as the distance decreased, U92, signal strengths and signal returns from "Vector's" Period began to harden up the results. Each region is controlled by one of Lucifer’s lieutenants. They’re the original fallen angels, or at least the ones that survived. I could talk for hours about it, but the general gist of it is that it’s not somewhere you want to spend much time.” She said with a slight shudder.“Then how did you end up here?” I asked.She quickly shook herself out of her reverie.“It’s not a memory I wish to relive. It was a journey of great pain and sacrifice,” she said, looking down where her hands were wrapped.