I felt the love, yes, and I felt the power. For I’d stolen the last piece of him from my mother, and maybe the last piece of himself. I moaned regr...tfully when he pulled from the kiss, my lips searching blindly for his. When I opened my eyes, I saw a face that was wild with hatred. “A promise is a promise, Leveria.” He hissed, “Get on your knees.” I got off the bed and bent over against the bed frame, my hands gripping the bars tightly as I braced myself. Daddy came up from behind me and. .. Wanda!"Whoops, she had been daydreaming again. "Sorry," she spoke in her normally sheepish voice, "what did you say mom?" I swear, I have one daughter that is turning into a tramp and another that is deaf and dumb!" Cheryl snickered at her younger sister for the latter comment, Wanda simply ignored her. "I said, can you do the dishes tonight... ?"Wanda quickly interjected, "But its Cheryl's turn tonight, I have studying to do." Not for school though.Her mom simply ignored her outburst, and. Eventually he began to make out structures in orbit, what looked like enormous steel girders at this distance, some kind of planetary defense weapons of Broker design maybe? The pilot thumbed a button on his console and directed a microphone on his headset towards his mouth.“Krell flight control this is March Hare en route from Fort Hamilton, requesting orbital and landing permissions, over.”He waited a moment before the reply came through, a synthetic and distorted voice, as if someone was. Chris watched in dismay as David ran him down from behind, and then simply ran straight through him, leaving Hassan a crumpled form on the ground. Hassan was still lying there when Chris intercepted David, and banged the ball out of bounds. Then he ran up to Hassan, worried about what he'd find.Hassan propped himself up on his elbows when Chris approached. Chris could see him breathing as hard as could, but he could also see a manic smile on his face."Oh, yeah, did I get blown away or what?".