I fired them back without a thought, knowing I needed some false bravado for what I was about to hear. I washed the shots down with a beer as I sat th...re, checking my watch every 5 seconds. Finally, I paid for the drinks and left the bar. I walked the block or so to Vivian’s complex, for one because I didn’t want to drive that soon after throwing back some booze and the other to both compose myself and avoid any ‘eyes’ Emma might have on the place, whatever the hell that meant. I made my way to. If you get nightmares, I will be right out here for you.”Finally, wondering at how Luke could still have the ability to reject her, Cecilia went to bed. Luke sat around for a while and just thought about everything. Him losing his parents, getting a medical discharge from the Marines because of a roadside bomb, losing the rest of everyone he had every known because of some fucking cosmic freak job, killing those men to protect two women who he didn’t know, then losing Marion because he had. But he hadn’t ever been in her room without her. At least as far as she knew. She pushed the door a bit and saw he was in fact out cold. She also saw, however one of her bottles of lip gloss, half empty. It didn’t take her but a moment to figure out what had happened. The little weirdo had jacked off with her lip gloss. Her first instinct was to wake him up and beat the hell out of him. After all how would he like it if- “Oh yeah!” she cheered herself quietly, turning and heading down the hall. “Now, how did I find that fairly quickly; there are tens of thousands of words there, but I found the one I wanted in a minute or two.”“You knew the words were in alphabetical order, and searched based on that,” someone said.“Right. Now we will try to formalize that process, in what we call a binary search algorithm. We split our array in half, and see which half our result lies in. We repeat the splitting in half process with the half that we know contains the result, and so on. At each stage,.