Except for Karen all of her friends had stopped even trying to contact her. Plus, no one at Bible study took her seriously anymore. None of the studen...s who attended said anything about the Game but she could feel their judging eyes and hear their giggling whispers while she tried to read passages out of the Bible to them.They'll forget eventually, Alina told herself. They'll all forget eventually. Things will go back to normal.Worse than losing her friends and her authority on the Bible,. "Nick, you aren't fine. You shouldn't be here." She could see the white line of his lips pressed together, the beads of sweat along his forehead that dripped into the trash can. "Let me take you home." Wait," he ground out. "Give me a minute, I'll be fine." He could feel the pill starting to work, the pain receding, the ache in his stomach subsiding to a manageable level. He breathed a huge sigh of relief and moved his head a little, gauging the amount of pain movement would bring. He sat up,. “They could be facing a greater threat elsewhere,” Captain Arrva of the cruiser Debrissa speculated.“Must be a hell of a threat to draw them away from our border, they’d have to know we’d investigate eventually,” Ewess replied thoughtfully.“Raffagee?” Osmus posited.“Disturbing thought,” Tilnoss nodded. “Comms, order the Misty Cloud to head for the Kavasg system and see if their main sector fleet base is still operational.”“Orders sent. They’re heading out, sir,” the Comms Officer replied.“Your. I was watching the passing traffic with growing interest, as the clock stretched toward 1:00PM. After the oil had been changed in my car I drove next door and chose the car wash bay at the rear of the lot. Already I was thinking of not being seen by a neighbor of mine or one of hers. As I washed my car, again in the same spot, I watched for the white Mitsubishi to arrive. In my mind I tossed about ideas of what I would do or say when we met. Part of me wanted to grab her and kiss her like she.