The man turned to face him and, as he responded in the affirmative, the second man brought a cosh down onto his head sending him into oblivion.* * * *...* * * * * *"Oh God .. where am I wh .." he started to say but stopped at the sound of his voice.Something was wrong here ? his voice was a little croaky but it was still much lighter than it had been before! He also wondered why everything was so dark and what it was that he could feel over his eyes. It seemed like some sort of mask! His already. .. thing is really a spaceship, isn’t it?” He had voiced the word thing very quietly and almost reverently.“I am, indeed, real, and welcome aboard,” Ship spoke aloud to Morales and Jasmine.The two locked eyes for a moment before Jasmine spoke. “Uh, thank you ... Ship.” Then turning to Jeff, “I hope I used the correct form of address.”Jeff didn’t answer, but even as the grin touched his face, Ship responded with, “My name is Ship, so you did, indeed, use the correct form. Thank you.”“I was in. "No time for food now", he says to himself pushing the thought from his mind. There was work to do.Tracking down Saim was no easy task and usually meant trudging around several addresses. He was either entertaining a lady in some love nest he acquired cheap, or in the process of convincing another to join his sordid escort service, so it was not going to be easy. Phoning was pointless as he had more numbers than fake addresses, so for now, the search was on.Into the third hour of pacing up and. She took extra coins outta their pants fer doin that. She took $8.48 cents outta grandpas pants when he died and said he owed that to her. Ben was a laugh in, hold in his side and wipein tears outta his eyes all at the same time. I guess he missed grandma as much as we did. We sat her up against a tree down by the creek when she died. Thats where she liked to fish. Shes still there but she aint lookin to good. Ben was still takin free licks and tittie feels so Jen tied his hands with some.