Shaking his head to clear it, he could see that a good amount of time had passed. Flexing his mental energy he could feel that it was slightly heighte...ed.Finally able to sit up, he set the automatic controls for his home. He had to get stronger, if they were going to have any chance at all of defeating this Sam creature. The Doctor opened up his communication device as he contacted the councilors.“This is the Lord Doctor, are you close to a resolution? I was in contact with the Cliveastone. He. He ran to the side of the van and grabbed an old towel, and Nate and I tookcare of my hand while David got the nut loose. They were both full of apologies. The cut wasn’t that bad but my hand wasdirty, and the b***d was dissolving some of the dirt and it stung pretty bad.Or was it the burn stinging? Nate was playing nurse and now I noticed that hesort of sounded gay. It turns out he had been a nurse in the Navy. Iexplained to David how to weave the strands of wire around the post and. "A pool!" she gasped in astonishment, "You've got a pool" And a sauna" I laughed and if you look beyond the pool, you'll see a tennis court" I thought this was a flat" It is" I laughed with her, "It's a flat with a pool and a tennis court" It's huge, how can you afford it?" It was left to me in a will" I lied and it seemed to satisfy her,"Would you like a drink?" Mm yes please" and her eyes widened again as I pressed yet another switch to illuminate a fully stocked bar, I poured out two glasses. "With excellent tastes in music and women." Well, buddy," I said, "if you wanna bring him here then he probably will at least be interesting to talk with." And her," Dan said. "You don't know the half of it."I laughed. "Yeah, we do know about that other half, don't we?"And while we were talking we didn't know what sort of twists were taking place in our happy community.(Author's note: The following is another bit of writing by one of my readers. I think it's a great twist.)Ann Hardesty's.