He had known that if he hadn't broken away then he would never had got away.He'd found a little money in the flat. It had paid for a meal and an overc...at but now it was gone. He didn't even have his ident card, though it would have been worse than useless anyway.He had walked all night and hidden during the day. With no papers he hadn't dare risk an encounter with police. At least here, out of town, there weren't the regular patrols. He'd have a better chance; maybe he'd find a way of. What I found was a basement rapidly filling with water. I found water cutoff valve and turned it. The water stopped pouring from my water heater almost immediately.To my untrained eye it looked like it was coming from a drain at the top of the water heater. A quick check of the on line layout for the hot water heater informed me that it was the pressure relief valve. Something was wrong with the new water heater which had been installed a few months before by the 'HLF' crew during the. The immediate change in Rachel had been palpable. She was always a high-energy person, too often riding the edge of nerves and anxiety. Her work demands were substantial and her stress often broke through in the form of constant movement—nails tapping, knee bouncing. In the car, she’d been calm and even. Relaxed in a way he’d never seen her before. It felt like a door had opened between them, and out of this, a calming energy flowed. Even poised to play a sport she loved, her body seemed. I placed the picture back and walked further down the hall. My eyes grew large in the very dim light and laid against one of the walls. I felt my heart begin to pound, smashing my ribs. My head started spinning and I fell to the floor. I dreamt then, of my past. I was standing at the edge of a beach and she stood at the end of a dock. The ocean crushed around her. The waves smashed against the wooden dock where she turned and looked into my eyes. She looked and saw all my world, and dug me. I.