Let me ask her and call you right back. Okay?”“Pronto, Tonto,” Tyler responded and hung up.Dustin looked at the clock. It was 9:38. He was a bit...surprised his mother hadn't already been upstairs to wake him. She had a thing about “burning daylight.” Maybe she was cutting him some slack since summer was almost over. He had just turned sixteen and was going to be starting his sophomore year at Madison High School. His mom taught upper class English and he knew she was getting ready for the new. ”Alba tried not to visibly snarl at him as he checked in with the assault carrier, a few of the other Brutes who were sitting on the ground nearby turning their heads in her direction, perhaps picking up her scent. She could certainly smell their musk.“Your patrol is ordered to board the next Phantom, it will drop you off in the next plaza over,” he said as he gestured in the general direction. “Scout the area for Humans, and call in backup if you come across any Sangheili, little sister. They. Grif asked him if he could have someone keep the airstrip plowed, and Link promised to take care of it until mid week. As soon as they were all ready, Link carried them over to the airstrip, and helped them uncover and roll the Cessna out for the trip to the Chena River Lodge.It was a 2 1/2—hour flight to the Chena Hot Springs airstrip, and Grif, Tara and Chris arrived ahead of Dennis, Sheila and her kids. They exchanged hugs and gifts. Grif handed Tracy an envelope containing the Spring Bear. And that’s when she’d jumped on a plane to spend her last days with me.As the second of the three months drew to a close, Celeste started exhibiting changes. She would enter fugue states that would last up to an hour, and when she came out of them, she had no memory of ever having been gone. Entire hours vanished for her, and she had no memory of what’d had happened while she’d been away. Her vision started to deteriorate, and after examining a medical text on the matter, I concluded that she.