"Diane explained in more detail to Ned what they had seen."Huh. Wonder if this has anything ta do with her sad state today." It has to," Diane said. "...f Jo was working against her this long ago, who knows how much time she had to really mess things up." All I'm thinkin' is that if Penny really did poke her pert little schnoz inta The Big V's affairs, he coulda jus' made her forget she was ever innerested in that stuff. Problem solved, no need ta turn herself over to nobody, an' we wouldn't be. He heard her come back down the stairs and busy herself in the kitchen.He sat in front of the TV, not so much watching it, but having a visible focus, he knew his rejection had been a bad move, he also know it was instinctive, and not so much rejection as revulsion. He lit a fag and went over the things he had been told, how he should behave normally at home, how he should have last night chomped down the soiled salad and said thankyou, he also thought about the change in her attitude, was it. Qiao noted the look from Nemeia. The teifling had a very expressive face when she wasn’t hiding something, which was frequent. The look told Qiao, that she had already had enough of the bard’s cheerful crap. This was war, and with how Malark was behaving, one would be forgiven for thinking he was using it as an opportunity to write a new ballad.Qiao said a salient prayer to Lathander as she saw General Grodan approaching. “Himo,” she said to the wood elf who sat cross-legged among the group of. “Hang on David!” Linda screamed as she instinctively turned the steering wheel… but there was nothing she could do to stop the SUV from hurtling down the hill. It seemed like they slid forever, but it was only a few seconds before they came to a stop with a loud thud.---She could see great fear on her son’s face as he said, “Mom… what happened?”“We just slid off the road honey,” she answered with a fake calm to her voice. She really wasn’t sure what had happened, but figured that she had hit.