But this woman – her image, frozen in my mind, had me entranced. I had to find her. So I rushed through the crowd, bumping here and there into facel...ss faces and nameless bodies. Before long, I spied her starting up the largest set of stairs in the room, disappearing around the corner. ‘Shit…’ I could have sworn she glanced down at me, just briefly, but I couldn’t tell. ‘Who is she?’ As I made my way up the stairs I could feel my pulse rising, along with the temperature. I had to go so far as. She didn't dare do that now because she was so afraid that Chris would catch her. She was sure that he hated her, although she couldn't figure out why he would. After what he saw me doing, he should love me all the more for it, she said to herself over and over.But the fact of the matter was that he didn't. He seemed to think even less of her, and now he hardly said a word to her. Before, he hadn't said that much to her, and now he said even less. Vicky just couldn't take it any longer. She had. We turned Z1 around and headed home at what we laughingly called flank speed. By dropping our elevation to 15,000 feet and pushing all of the engines, both propulsion and steering to maximum speed, we were able to reach close to 30 MPH.Z1 was going to need a major overhaul before it went anywhere again, but we made it home in eight days. By this time, the four Spaniards had been isolated in a stasis field, but neither AI nor Ed wanted to leave them there. Their reasons were different, but they. I felt left out and kind of lonely at night. I cried myself to sleep a few times too but I was the man of the house, Dad had often told me that.I started spying on them. I would stay around the corner for a minute or two before entering a room. I would look in the windows before going into the house. I would even lie on the floor outside Mom’s bedroom and listen through the crack under the door at night after I was supposed to be in bed. Eventually I was sure that the three of them were having.