As we politely talked she began to openly hint that she could become ‘much more friendly with me’ if I would support her and ‘stick with her pro...ram’, and play a bit more ‘the way we’re all used to’. Luckily, I had been warned that Sam might pull this ploy by Irv and Simon and was well prepared for it, not that I would have touched her anyway even with one of Irv’s mangled old drumsticks. I suggested that she show me ‘just how friendly she was prepared to get’ and was rewarded by the sight of. Opening the front door, he found his mother already standing in front of her chair, having recognized the sound of his boots walking up the front steps. Without speaking he stepped over and wrapped his arms around her.“I’m okay mother, see?” he said as she sobbed quietly into his chest, she responded by giving him a small squeeze. After a few moments, they separated and Kal helped her back into her chair before taking a seat nearby.“Perra said you were stolen away by a rock golem and that Ikuno. I'm sorry about that. I just don't know what to say most of the time."The few men in the room stopped their conversations and turned to look at me, wondering if I was talking to them."I'm in college now," I continued. "I'm studying to be an engineer. No, I don't want to drive a train. I want to build bridges and roads. But driving a train might be cool."I paused for a moment."I didn't join the Army," I added. "I thought about. I thought about it real hard. I just couldn't do it. We still fly. “And I’m getting sick of it. I don’t want to have to make a report on the mispropriety to the captain, but I will!”“Is ‘mispropriety’ really a word?” Bong asked. “I ain’t ever heard that used in a sentence before you just...”“Yes, it’s a word!” he said.“Hey, you want an omelet, sup?” Gath asked. “I’ll fire one up for you.”“No, I do not want an omelet,” he said.“That’s a shame,” Sax said around a mouthful of his. “It’s pretty good slag.”“They have food in the roach pit!” Cooler cried, quite.