A rather amusing moment occurred when a jeweler friend of Melanie's dad got a close look at Melanie's engagement ring. He was flabbergasted by the vis...ble quality of diamonds, and I couldn't help but smile at what his reaction would be if he saw them under a microscope. He pleaded with Melanie several times to divulge from where the ring was purchased, but Melanie politely declined, saying the ring's origin was a marital secret.Our old friends congratulated me for my Bachelors from M.I.T. and. Hayden was practically swallowing a hamburger whole while Alex and Kristina were talking about how their first day of classes went. I slowly bit into my apple, until I felt the burning intensity that someone was watching me. Joanna was staring in my direction, raising her eyebrow and squinting her eyes, as if she was trying to decipher a difficult calculus problem. She looked down immediately and idly started flipping pages of her book. I finished my apple and soda and got up to throw away the. " How do you know it's a Plasma Cannon?" asked Candy, a question that had been bouncing around my mind too."Yeah," I said. "I thought you were just a protester." People tend to listen to your arguments more when you've got a Phase pistol in your hand," she giggled."Ship it back and we'll look at it at home space port," I said. "Now Candy what have you found?" Well I think it's a shield generator," she said, her head again inside the bulkhead."Ok take it back and we'll study it later," I said.. I didn?t think it wouldinfluence the outcome.The paramedic report would be somewhere, if it wasn?t lost already. Icould glean info from that as to how she came to be here. But did itmatter?Like everything that happened over the past 3 years it was engineeredto be so.Sarah has been returned to me. But in what capacity? And why exactly?I would soon find out I guess, as she began to stir.***When her eyes open, I?m the first thing she sees. There is a moment ofuncertainty, which I interpret as lack.