The girl’s eyes opened slowly at first, then shot wide open as she saw them standing above her. She jerked up into a sitting position and backed awa..., jabbering incomprehensibly.Treya held her hands up to show she was unarmed.“I can’t tell what she’s saying,” Bobo said. “Wait—that was fortress, I think. She’s talking so fast, and all the sounds are different from what I learned. I’m not sure if it’s the first peoples’ language or not.”“She said vasta,” Shavala mentioned. “Elf.”The girl pushed. When it became obvious that our approach wasn’t working, we notified our groups that we needed to modify our approach. We told them that they should take a break while we regrouped and revised our approach. For the next several months, we met with representatives of our support groups to determine their opinions of why our efforts had failed to motivate the American public. We began analyzing our efforts to determine what went wrong. What we eventually realized was there were several things. "Do you mind if I bum a cigarette?" I heard someone say as they walked up to me. It comes with the territory. Whenever you smoke someone is bound to walk up and ask. I was slightly annoyed but when I looked up it was him--the ass guy. I fumbled with the pack, tapped it and he took the proffered gift. He smiled and rested the unlit cig on his lower lip. It dangled there. I took a drag from mine before I handed it over for him to put the tip of my ember smoke-stick to the tip of his. He inhaled. Let's see if we can get all this load into a taxi, then we'll go and meet Sarah and Joop. You're all staying at Joop's place, he's got plenty of room."As luck would have it, there was a big enough taxi outside the station, one of those van-shaped things. The driver spotted his target and homed in, unable to believe his luck in collecting at least six metres of female bosom in a single load. It was only when he had struggled to squeeze the last of Wendy's bags and the two folded baby buggies.