“We’re sorry we wasted your time. We deserve to be punished.” “Wha...?” “Yes, Sir. Punished; just like I was last week,” Meredith chimed...in. I was stunned, to say the least. Obviously, at least part of the whispering was Meredith filling Erica in on the rest of the events that had taken place. But that couldn’t have taken a whole five minutes considering they had not even changed. Something else was going on. “What exactly do you mean?” I asked. The girls parted, revealing the brass “prie dieu”. Had her twins not been there ... not needed her ... she would have taken her own life. But she had to go on. There was only one other person she could turn to ... her brother Robert, but the one human in the world who might be able to fully understand how she felt was beyond her reach. She didn’t even know where he was any more. The thought of what it would take to write a letter, which might not even be read by him for months, caused her to leave pen and paper lying unused.She got a job at the. The following weekend, Leanna helped me pick out a new bed for that room – my room. I moved out of the guest room that night.Leanna slept in there with me on my first night back in that room since Doug passed away.Another couple of weeks passed. I was at my office. My 10am appointment cancelled. I decided to make a phone call.-8-“Brandi, hey, how are you?” Ulysses answered my call. It’d been several weeks since I last saw him.“I’m doing well. What about you?”“I’m fine,” he answered. I. ' Please wait." When did we get a comedian for a contact person?" I said to Zeus, modifying the language I used for the ears of Zhengfu, who couldn't hear Io but could hear our side of the conversation."You have several miles of sewers to traverse, although the over-the-ground distance is not as great," Io said. She updated our GPS displays to the underground map of the sewer system. There were two dots that represented where we'd exit the sewers, and a further dot where our 'targets' – the.