." Toman sighed, "We just don't want you getting hurt."I looked across the table straight at Toman. He was my oldest friend, if only by a few minutes ...efore his sister had come along. And he saw the look written in my face. Toman laid a hand on his twin's arm."Mina ... I think Maxie needs us to cut him some slack."We were thankfully interrupted at that point by a bark, and Nuka's fluffy head pushing under my arm to lick my face."And how are my favourite teenagers today?" Paul's voice wrapped me. The man read, looked up, read it again and then tore it into four pieces and threw them at Vixen. “Get out,” he yelled. “Brad come down here. Marsha, call the police!” Vixen fetched the young woman, and Ralph convinced male to come and listen, his arm twisted halfway up his back. Vixen explained and suggested that they could ruin their academic careers by staying. They agreed, ignored Wainmoor’s protests and left quickly to pack up their belongings. “We’ll be out of here in thirty minutes,” the. “The doctor says her operation was a complete success and so was yours. She should be waking up soon.”“I feel a little groggy and my side hurts like hell,” he winced a little touching his right side along his ribs. He tried to sit up but immediately lay back down tired and woozy from just trying to change position.“Can Abby and I be put in the same room?” Brad asked looking at the nurse.“We’ll see how she’s doing first.”“Everyone is here to see you and Abby,” Dan said motioning with his hand to. He found out quickly they had ways of “enforcing the rules.” The first of which was to separate the men and women except when meditating. The first day they were all together in a group meeting and he immediately fixed his eyes on a cute brunette who looked strangely familiar. He thought he might know her though couldn’t be 100% sure. When he found “noble silence” meant refraining from “all” communication, verbal or otherwise, he began to doubt his ability to stand true to all the rules,.