She talked it over with Janet, and they agreed that Mary could have her baby as soon as she graduated from high school. The plans were for her to stop...taking the Pill on the 15th of March. Even if she was knocked up immediately, she would not show until after graduation, and that was what was important. Mary was in no hurry to go to college, so she had the time to get her child started on life's path when the time came. They had enough money so that Mary would never have to work, and that. Things seem roteto me now. Not in a depressing way, I'm actually feeling really goodabout where I'm at. I have a pattern now, a schedule. Before it feltlike work and play were completely separate. I'd go to work as oneperson and live other parts of my life as someone else. Now that'schanging. I'm Kristy all the time, even if I don't always look like it.She's me and I'm her and that's that. I see things through her eyes allthe time, whether at work or at home. And I look like her every. His comm refused to complete the call to Colonel Haddis. Either there was a problem with his comm or the op center was compromised and they had shutdown internal communications.He was blind. He needed to find out what was happening. Was it time to cut his losses and bolt?He suppressed his worry; he was a man of action and a warrior. He strode purposefully to the dresser in his room and belted on his holster and pistol. He grunted as he checked the charge on it and put a spare power pack in his. It was a few hours before dark, I stopped beside a stream and picketed the horses. I knew there had been watchers and ignored them. As the sun got lower, a man rode out of the trees and sat his horse looking at me, “May we share your fire?”I smiled and nodded and he turned to gesture back at the trees. I was a little surprised at the number of people that rode out and swung down. They seemed to just keep coming and my camp quickly grew. I looked around as another fire flamed to life. Several.