"Sarge was standing there with some binoculars, and said, "There is a heavyset guy in the control tower. He's waving a gun around, yelling at someone ... can't see. The man looks crazed, so we're going to have to be careful. The glass on the tower is too thick for our snipers to go through."I told Sarge to hold that thought and went to the car. I opened the trunk and Chuck's equipment case. I assembled Chuck's fifty caliber sniper rifle, loaded it with a magazine of non-explosive rounds and went. “She can bring it up,” Zorba said. I ignored both of them.“As I was saying, there’s something else we haven’t talked about. My face and Alex’s blindness are not hereditary and can’t be passed on to our children. We want to have children. Are you ready to be uncles and aunts and grandparents? I think we can have beautiful children; don’t you?”“Of course, we do,” Mom said. “But you two can wait a few years.”I couldn’t help it. I grinned at her. “Why? You and Dad didn’t. Anyway, we want to wait. " He wasn't going to tell her that they thought he acted as if he was in a daze when he was with her."We are a nice couple, Kyle." And that made me think about next year, and how much I was going to miss you and stuff." Miss me, or miss sleeping with me?" No! No! Miss you. Miss being with you and talking to you and just holding your hand and seeing you and all kinds of things." You know, we don't have to be apart, Kyle." That's what I was beginning to wonder about. Of course, I didn't know. I still had my soul after all.As the orcs began to cheer my name and encourage my defiling of Dog Meat, and as she herself sang out a wretched soprano note, I put my lips to her ear, and made her a solemn promise.“I will take you to a man who can heal you.” I whispered, “He will give you back what has been cut from you, but he cannot fix you. No one can.” She squirted with a delighted scream, tears streaming down her face, the anguish bubbling just below the surface of her ecstasy. The orcs.