The Gunny, the Chief, my Daddy, the Admiral, and my scrawny little hopeless-loser of a brother, who suddenly turned into a noble warrior, all of them ...ave. This girl can only hope to be as good a person as them."Deb nodded, holding Lenore's gaze in her own. "And Sandy?" she breathed.Lenore nodded. "And, then there's Sandy." She gave a small laugh, and said, candidly, "I want to be like her, Deb. Tall and strong, and totally committed to her goals. Everyone wants to have Sandy on their team.". "It's alright, honey; everything's going to be okay," he said as he carefully hugged her."Is Mrs..." LeAnn was trying to be brave but couldn't help a few more sniffles. "Is Mrs. Cermak okay?" What does she have to do with you getting hit by a car, honey?" She ... she pushed me out of the way. The car hit her instead. She's hurt real bad, daddy. I know she is..." she was able to say before starting to cry again.Tyler remembered Chris saying something about Sue at the scene. He couldn't worry. Goat was holding a pipe in one hand. He puffed on it.“You bastard,” June snarled.“Granted.” He grinned at her. “Shall we?”“Chirp, get down!” Xora shouted, then tackled Chirp before a mana-blast slammed into the Ruby Lunar. Chirp, their belly mashed up against the deck of the battleship they were on. Xora pushed herself to her arms and knees, panting. “Are you okay?” she asked.“Yes!” Chirp nodded – then kicked hard. One of the many enemy crewmen that still were onboard the enemy battleship went. I'm working out of the Thompson Street office instead of my own cube so I haven't been around. Nothing really new though. How about you?" Actually I thought about you the other day. Jason assigned me a new project. Guess what? It's those new accounting enhancements you were telling me about a couple of months ago. I got the job of designing them and implementing them into the system." Hey, that's great!" she said with enthusiasm. "Now I know they'll be done right. I hope you'll keep me posted.