"Welcome aboard," he said with a smile to one particularly attractive woman with a child as she handed him her tickets, but she just scowled back at h...m as she boarded the truck.At 6:30, he closed the door and rode the elevator up to the upper level.Back in the driver's seat, he keyed the microphone to the PA system, "Welcome aboard Big Mutha Truckers six thirty to Chicago. There is a restroom and a vending machine next to the elevator. Emergency stairs and exit is to the rear. Please remain in. 'She pretty much lost her mind when she got here, ' she added with a frown.'That's a fucking shame.' Misty replied seeing Nickie and Bridgette coming out of their cell wearing only small towels. 'Where are you two going?' She asked giving them a warm smile.Nickie moved close to Misty. 'We're going to shower before lights out. Want to come join us?' She asked with a wink. 'We won't do anything to you, we promise, ' she smiled running her hand under Bridgette's small towel. She pulled a long,. Uhm. I’ve seen her this morning during breakfast. I think she told me something about her colleague’s birthday dinner or something?”“Oh, yeah!” Michael perked up. “That was today! I forgot all about that. But she isn’t answering her phone, either. I’m sort of worried.““There’s a charger dangling from the socket on the kitchen counter,” I told him, relieved to see the end of the tunnel that was this stupid, stupid conversation. “I think that’s hers? She probably forgot to take it, and her phone. “I’m bored,” giggled Arwen.“Trust me, you don’t want the alternative around here,” I chuckled, feeling my mood lift.“Tower’s still there, but I still can’t scan it,” she added.“I still can’t detect it, though I think my vision is getting a little better,” I nodded.“Like seeing up to the edge of a fog bank?” she asked.“Pretty much so yes, still a bit like dusk too,” I replied.“Me too.”We’d just walked a few hundred metres when the ambush was sprung. Three carnivores burst upwards from the morass.