Striding down the corridor of Deck 8, he headed towards his quarters, lookingforward to putting on his robe and going to bed. Although the chronometer...atthe end of his shift had said that it was only 2200 hours it felt like muchlater. He mentally cursed these 16 hour shifts as the doors hissed open,granting him access to his quarters. Surprisingly, the sitting room was illuminated with half lights, and Adamcouldn't remember leaving them on when he left earlier that morning, and theyhadn't been. " She looked up with a curious expression on her face. "Except here. As of this morning."Bev said, "That would explain the smell." Partly," Maria said. "I think it's more than that. You know how an overcrowded room with a lot of people smells? Compared to, I don't know, our living room? It's like that. I agree that the smog is gone from here, but there's more." Something tells me we need to get back to the cave," said Val."That's where we're going, Silly," Bev answered him."Well then we should. I certainly wouldn't stoop to lowering your performance ratings because of any personal differences we might be having." It never even occurred to me that you might. I like to save copies of all my employee reviews, so when this one was so late, I started worrying about it. I'll look around my desk area to see where it might have gotten to. Sorry to have bothered you with this."I left, no closer to getting any signs of social interest from her than I'd been before going to all this effort to. Will the operation affect his ability to play hockey again?” Dan wondered.“Brad won’t be playing any hockey for the rest of this season that’s for sure. As for the NHL draft, the operation cuts through the major stomach and abdomen muscles and Brad will likely need close to a year of rehab, possibly longer if he would be capable of playing at the NHL level.’“There is a strong possibility Brad might never be able to play that high a level of pro hockey in the AHL or the NHL. His ability to play.