"Ellen replied, "She had to get outside help to get her back on track; that's why the rehab facility. I don't know what they're like, but I'm hoping t...ey have doctors, psychiatrists, and other people who work with you – who help you get back to where you want to be." Do you think Crystal will come back and be the way she was before all this started?" I doubt it. She's been through hell – a hell of her own making, and she knows it."Ellen thought a minute and added, "She'll come back with scars. Hewanted to say something to her but he couldn't find his voice. "There is a special frigate you can all go to for a better view of thedemonstration or my guards will take you up to the observation deck, andfor those that are curious, you can go down into the gunneries stationbut that wont offer a very good view. I will leave you to make yourchoice. Its now 15:45 and the demonstration is set for 1600 hours. " Jennifer was taken down to the gunneries station and Alfred wanted tojoin the empress. From beating up a pillow to popping bubble wrap I’d graduated to twisting plastic water bottles into fragments with my bare hands.I’d finally come to terms – of a sort – accepting that it wasn’t Bao’s fault he was gone forever. He hadn’t wanted to die. It wasn’t the fault of his brother Marines, either.How about the President?Let’s not go there.The villain was a faceless fanatic forever out of reach. I’d learned to let it go, let it all go.Well, almost.Andrews had her ways. I knew they weren’t. ”I reached, tentatively, to put my hand on the results of all those nights we spent together.“May I?” I asked, with my hand an inch away from her body.“Don’t be silly,” she said. “Of course you can. Obviously, my daughter isn’t incensed about this.”Valerie suddenly stopped laughing and clutched her belly with both hands.“Owww!” she yelled.My hand landed on Eve’s belly and the baby in it moved, as if to acknowledge my presence.“What’s wrong?” asked Eve, suddenly alert.“I think I just had a.