.." exclaimed Pikalevoi."A torpedo!" someone yelled."No! The Battleships are opening fire, look!" somebody else said."At who? What? Are we under attac...?" Gorshin, have you missed something?" yelled the Commander."No," replied Yvgeny, "there was nothing, I swear!"More flashes rolled from the Battleships, lighting the night like an undercranked Cine film.The gun crews piled onto the deck of the Grozny, unbidden. Presently a long black shape slid silently alongside the Destroyer, it was the. .. excited, too. Very excited. It will increase a whole lot sometime soon, hopefully after dinner, so eat! Eat!” urged Harriet. “We’ll need our strength! And ladies, Olivia especially, drink your water!”They began eating, and Harriet continued, “So, we may have found an answer for the depression part of it, but the surges seem to get stronger...” she continued on with what they’d discovered, including Olivia and June getting exposed and sucked into the problem.Jack looked at June and Olivia.. Next she sorted through the clothesCathy'd purchased Wednesday and came up with clean pantiesand socks. She quickly pulled her jeans back on thenhesitated a couple seconds, eying the bra she'd wornyesterday. Decisively she shook her head and slipped thesweater over her head without a bra. She caught sight of thescrunchie she'd worn the other evening and used it to pullher hair into a semi-neat ponytail. There, she thought,satisfied with herself, ready to roll in less than fiveminutes. Who says. Given all the children born since the exodus, there was no escaping them. Pushing away from the wall, she began the walk home."I'm back."Kasia said it softly as she opened the door, not wanting to be blamed for waking Tolek. She needn't have worried. Urszuli was feeding the infant, dress unbuttoned enough for the large breast to pop out. Roda sat beside her, one of Tymon's work shirts in her lap. She looked up, needle paused in its work."Did you have trouble?"Kasia shook her head, shifting the.