Along with these thoughts, other, more intricate and ambitious ones, fleeted through her mind enjoiningly. He could be the one... the necessary male a...sistant she needed to pull off her coup when the time came... though he was young and inexperienced, where Jack Heath, whom she had met not an hour before in Max's office, had the suave maturity, plus the educated mind the maneuvers were going to require... but as handsome and desirable as the young Mr. Heath was, he didn't resemble her Daddy,. "I tried not to let it show, but I was getting angry. First my life was ruined because of stories about souls and ghosts, and now I had to deal with dreams! All the stuff that I did not believe in and could never understand!"Trace, you know my beliefs on the subject, and you know I still do not understand the reason for the humiliation I had to suffer. I'm sorry, but this time I simply cannot help you." Please go to the graveyard, and just sit by her grave for a while. Maybe the closeness will. "And perhaps I was on that occasion. But in this case you are absolutely correct, he would be that. I cannot conceive of him with Akakha, or any other Edenite guard. And you manipulated him very neatly into dispatching Zo with us." It was easier than I expected." They were interrupted abruptly by Meier, who shared their quarters, beginning to stir from his nap. "Mommy, Daddy?" the boy said sleepily; he was just beginning to talk. He opened his eyes to their reassuring presence."We are right. She brushed her straight black hair behind her singly pierced ears. She wore little makeup. Her eyes were red and puffy.“You look like shit,” Zera said.“Oh...” Wendy blushed and dug a mirror out of her bag. She sighed.Zera had turned back to her books and notes. She scratched the point of her pencil in the platinum half of her dyed hair. Wendy watched her hopefully. Zera was idly drawing a girl getting plowed doggystyle while she memorized amino acids.“All my girlfriends were friends of my ....