For nothing!"The old man nodded affirmatively. "I really didn't mean for that tohappen. Once they thought it was alien, no-one wanted to take a chan...eon finding something deadlier." The old man sighed heavily. "If Ihadn't done it and NASA hadn't been shut down, maybe they would havebeen able to deflect the Edinburgh meteor. Over twenty thousand peoplewouldn't have died." His voice trailed off, heavily burdened byguilt."I don't understand why, though." It's complicated. To start with, my. Happy for both of them; we were a very close family and this was our first reunion in over two years. "I work for a production company." I glanced at her and then looked at my dad openly, just to see his reaction. But he hid his thoughts well and returned my gaze with a friendly smile. "What's that?" Cheryl asked. "Part of the entertainment industry." I nodded, as if that explained anything. "It's small, but growing." "Entertainment, oh that's nice." Mom nodded. She was a young forty-something,. ." Homr swallowed a mouthful of sandwich, almost choking, and tried again. "What do you mean, wrong? All of her drives are working again, aren't they? I sure feel heavy enough, and she's jumping all right." Oh, the drives are working just fine. That's not the trouble. She's hurting, every time she jumps, and Captain Jeryth doesn't feel it. He won't believe that anything's wrong. Also, there are stress cracks all through her skeleton. We shouldn't be using anywhere near this much power to the. You need to go claim your wife back before it’s too late. I said, Janet, it seems every woman in my life takes great pride in cutting me to the bone. I guess I’m just easy.I got home about 4pm. I understood that Debbie didn’t get off til 530. I went in ... nothing appeared to have changed. I unpacked. Our bed was made, but it seemed like a sad place. Almost like no one sleeps in here. There was some 7 month old beer in the fridge. I got one and sat down in my recliner. Wasn’t long before I.