I'd just have to give it to the hospital, anyway. They're threatening to sue now. And be damned if I'd take that measly payoff for everything I lost, ...et along turn around and give it to the hospital. A friend of mine had some of the same tests run that Sam had. She showed me where her insurance paid about a tenth what the hospital charged for the same tests, and her bills were marked paid. And I had to pay up front for the tests, even with Sam so sick. Then they billed me for hundreds of. The morning was hard after that as my mind keepwondering, what was she up to? why was she doing thisto me?. The more I thought about it the angrier I gotuntil at 11.45 I took an early lunch and headed to herhouse.When I knocked on her door I saw it was open so I letmyself in. It was a big house full of rich stuff andwhen I called out to her there was no answer. I foundher in the kitchen making a salad on the worktop. She wore a short skirt that I’m sure she never normallywore as it just. "So how do you suggest we steal this orb of theirs?" Very simple. You drive me back to Peace River and I'll search for it. Once I find out where it's located, you can take it from them." You mean steal it," I pointed out."If you want to call it that," the rat countered. "I prefer to think that we're liberating the people from their oppression." Maybe some of them want to be there," I replied."Maybe, but I bet most of them don't, and not in the new bodies they were given. Oh, I didn't tell you. If I were truly on His side, wouldn't I have known it already? But I'd killed, only once and recently, but nevertheless ... I'd killed the nameless girl whose clothing I was wearing, and I'd felt nothing for her. No guilt or remorse or grief for my actions. Surely I wasn't on the side of God.And Lucifer, what did I know of him? Nothing at all really, except that he was an angel, a fallen angel who fought an unending war against heaven. I had no allegiance there, not yet anyway, although I.