There was bustle in the Ward as the day shift took over and the day Sister came in and checked her patient, reading his notes, taking temperature, pul...e, blood pressure as the man lay unmoving. She made her own notes, smiled and asked if there was anything she could get for them, then she was gone to her next patient.Sally closed her eyes and slept.She felt her hand being taken, squeezed and realised that her mother was waking her.Her eyes flew to her father, but he lay as he had those hours. The beautiful brunette was a friend of my niece and we fell in love. I was much older than she, past thirty to hers eighteen and initially her parents weren't in favor of our dating, but when they recognized our real love, they gave us their blessing.We were married for six years already. She graduated in business administration and was working on a demanding job pursuing her career and earning a very good salary. I was self-employed, so at times her steady income was very important towards our. You'd be a social pariah!" I said."You think so? Think about how I've been dressing for the past year. Youthink all the other women don't already hate me when they see theirhusbands panting after me? I just don't care. I won't be as public withother men, because some of them will be married, and they have to bediscreet. But you'd best get used to the idea that I'm going to make upfor lost time with copious amounts of sex, while you get nothing." Nothing?" Well, as I mentioned, I may let you. “I will be informing him directly after this meeting of the Beoghra,” came a reply.“He will not be pleased, Brnnt.”“When is he ever?” came a sneering reply.“Can we salvage anything?”“No, none of our gates there can be activated, not even the deep space one that we used for the Orb.”“Disturbing.”“Very. I will be tasking the new Seeker to look fully into their abilities as I cannot imagine that they will not move on to a new world to oppose us.”“Do we know how they actually did this ... thing?”.