.....?" Miranda was just about to say "Oh that little tart, she'll be punished as per usual !" P-punished.....?" Now now Miranda you don't have to wor...y about a useless little whore like that, your here for business, don't let a little thing like that interfere with what we have to do this minute , now would you like to do the transaction first or would you like to look at what i've managed to build up around here?, my own little fetish emporium so to speak !" again Vanessas eyes glinted with. They had essentially vanished. The period of time during which a particle vanished was as fuzzily defined as the boundary that defined the Anomaly’s extent. When those particles happened to belong to a Sirius vehicle then its demise was exactly as indistinct and undefined as everything else consumed by the Anomaly. There was no prior indication from the transmission that anything untoward was about to happen. The last few signals were no different to those before the vehicle’s communication. “You think he used a real name during his taped confession, last night, Richard?” mom asked.“He was still a little drunk,” I said, “I don’t think he was coherent enough to lie about that. If we can’t find Amanda, we’ll use our Plan B. I have faith in Pam. If she can find her, she’s going to tell her that we’re playing a practical joke on our father.”“Cassie,” mom added, “That was very good. You should try out for a play at school.”“I’m not staying in school after high school. I plan to be. The bumpy dirt road, really more of a wide trail, slowed our progress. It was only a couple miles from the development, but it took nearly twenty minutes before we pulled into Leo's driveway."Grab my bag kid," Leo said, as we got out of the truck. "Go on and open her up, I'll get everything turned on." I reached behind my seat and grabbed his duffel bag, he threw me the keys and went around back to turn on the propane and the generator. I walked up the porch steps to the door, jiggled the key.