I had never planned on explaining the multiple origins in game. I'd never planned to admit it was a game. It was hard to explain, and I worried about ...he reaction if they learned that people on Earth thought of their lives as a game. I took a deep breath, mind racing, and Alistair leaned down to speak quietly."Are you okay? You're looking rather pale."I stuttered and finally tried to explain."I ... in the performance, I think to try to expand their audience, they allowed the person viewing it. Do you understand?"She nodded. Then he had a sudden thought, and opened the medicine cabinet behind the mirror above the sink. He had an unopened toothbrush there that he had bought because his current one was getting old, but he hadn't yet disposed of it. He set the new one down on the counter, along with a tube of toothpaste. "Here you go," he told her. "Be sure to brush your teeth before going to bed tonight."John left the bathroom and closed the door behind him, listening for the telltale. She printed it indelibly in her memory.Elspeth held her plate under the water stream, letting it wash off the few remnants of her meal. She looked at Judy and grimaced. "I have to say, if that's the punishment for not being able to keep up, tomorrow I'm going to go like gangbusters. I'd rather have blisters over every inch of my body than eat this shit again." She waved the plate for emphasis."You cleaned it up pretty good," Judy told her, laughing."When you're as hungry as I am, eating for. So, please hang in there … Flavian —————- Chapter 1 Well, I had finally seen it. My grandfather’s headstone was no different from any of the others–marble, simple, neatly aligned with others in its row, and even aligned with others in almost any direction I looked throughout the Fort Snelling National Cemetery, just outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Except that the lines of the inscription on his headstone connected with my life and me personally, and the others did.