At the meet, I talked to several of the other mothers that I knew there and a couple of the fathers too. It was a big meet with eight other teams part...cipating. Beth did really well and finished first in beam and also the floor exercise and won second place in the all-around so it was a very good meet for her. I was so happy for her. About two hours before the meet was over, I got a text from Rob telling me that Mike’s team had won their hockey game by the score of 4-2 and that Mike had scored. And then we kin look back later and 'member how good we felt... wouldn't ya like that?"Amy was disgusted. She absolutely refused, though she knew she really had no choice. Her defiance incensed both him and his wife. And that's how the 14-year-old ended up locked away in the cellar for almost five days, without food or water. She might have died had the retarded girl, who Amy had so thoughtlessly written off weeks before, hadn't poured cups of water under the doorway for her to lap up greedily. This happened in 1960. Since then, Skyros and the Lost Ones, ( as the eighty eight hundred Siphon prisoners were then known) all of whom now possessed human bodies have walked among us. They seek the materials with which to rebuild the Portal. If they open the doorway to their home dimension, countless other Siphon will rush through, eager to possess human bodies and once more attempt to rule the planet Earth. The resurrected Siphon walk among us. It didn’t take them long to adapt to our world.. “I look,” Fara had thought with satisfaction when she had looked at herself in the mirror after dressing, “a bit like a bitchier version of Audrey Hepburn.” Her mother would have said that Fara looked like a younger version of herself, which was just what Fara intended.She nodded to the guard to open the door. As she stood in the doorway, Jim looked up, “Phyllis, I...” he began.“No it’s not Phyllis you half-wit, it’s me.” Fara pulled off her dark glasses.“Fara. Oh!” Jim looked confused as.