But it's nothing to be afraid of though. You can get used to them pretty quick and if you want you can just kind of tune them out of your awareness ag...in. It's just like how you don't really listen to the birds when you go outside, you know? You know they are there, but they don't distract you from other things."She sighed, then said, "Tell me about them? I mean, why do we have them flying around our heads?" I don't know why, I just know that they... Well, they don't just fly around our heads,. On the other hand, John Sibley said that he had been drawing comic strips since he was in grammar school, and he had a small sample with him. Janet looked at the eight panels that she was shown and was astonished by the talent that she saw exhibited by John."Ms Archer, Mr. Sibley seems to have exactly the right touch for what I need. Do you object to me interviewing him at length with no one else present. Some of the information I would need to broach is still proprietary and needs to be kept. After a quick breakfast they struck camp and set off, knowing they would be passing into enemy territory now.At two they stopped for a brew and to let Sue cool down. They’d covered fifty miles by Prof’s reckoning and had been skirting the sand dunes to the south. The dunes stretched out to the horizon; rolling mounds of sand whose glare hurt the eyes to look at them. Titch had pulled up in the shade of a sandstone buttress so they didn’t need to rig the camouflage net over them.Jack came over. I looked at the straw in my hand, the shortest of those that we had justpulled, a sickening feeling rising, then engulfing me, my heartpounding. My closest friend and fellow acolyte Kurt, standing beside me,gripped my upper arm. "Courage, Emil, they did tell us that thechallenge, whatever it is, will be difficult for the one chosen, but itwill be a noble thing that you do. Anyway, they tell us that with goodfortune, it will be only temporary. I pray that it will be so for you."I looked round at.