. I'll take your disks back to the Library and get you some new ones, right?" He gave me back the CDs."Can you just renew the Hamlet disk? I'm not don... with it yet."That was the end of that discussion, and the next day he came back with a bunch of disks. He said they were all school work, since I wouldn't be going to school for the next few days. GED stuff, he said. That stood for General Education Development, which is what I should be doing anyway. He said I could finish the Hamlet CD later.I. There were too many chances of it being noticed by Chico or his neighbors.He'd suggested the super market as a convenient drop for the nondescript car. The place was lighted, there were people in and out and it was busy enough that one car, more or less, should draw little or no attention. He did make one quick pass on foot past the front of the building to ensure there were no surveillance cameras pointed at the parking lot.They were all three dressed in nearly identical black Levi's and dark. The doors opened to the side, and he stepped onto a busfor the first time in 20 years. He looked for an open seat and sat nextto a young woman in a pantsuit. He sat there in silence as the bus madeits way down its route. Joe saw his stop approaching when he noticedthe hotel nearby. Joe stepped off the bus and walked down the street.Joe walked towards the hotel and headed for the servants' entrance. Hewalked in, but he found the door locked. He knocked on the door, and asecurity guard walked. Zack noticed soothing warmth started to spread through each palm, replacing the pain. Finally, she asked him to hold the leaves between his palms as long as he could, and he agreed. Since the leaves had removed most of the pain, he felt it wasn't a big deal to agree to keep his hands together.As the ship started to move, the native men began talking among themselves. It was the first time any of them had seen the power of the wind harnessed and used to sail a ship as large as the one they were.