Her body felt weak and it was difficult to coordinate her muscles.“Have I been ill?” she asked, attracting the attention of the tall being who was...working nearby. “I can’t remember anything.”The being looked up. Her father’s voice said, “You are just now born, my child.” The being smiled at her. She formed her mouth into a smile – her very first one.“Tomorrow we go down to the surface, child,” her father informed her. “There, you will be introduced to your family.”“Is this how it’s normally. It seemed someone had it out for me inside the agency.Heather felt my wrath later that afternoon after my one and only public arrest. Yes, even I had wrath. And knew what the word meant, without looking it up.She in turn, found the culprit, the reason (office politics), and transferred the asshole to Nome Alaska, with the Director’s AOK.Heather moved him before I could find him and see if I could dice him in finer cubes than Ed could make. I doubted it, but was more than willing to try in his. It seemed that this twenty four year old foreign visitor took a liking to him too. She was staying with her friend, Maura, who had the run of her parents’ cottage about a half mile or so from the club.Maura was quieter than Colleen, she reminded Bobby of how he was just two short weeks ago. Perhaps she needed someone to pay her some attention and perhaps awaken the virgin flame within. “I bet she’d like to dance also,” Bobby thought as he sipped on a new drink, a Bloody Mary. The band started. And my teammates would be real pals, real good guys, instead of a bunch of shits I can’t stand. And we’d all support each other, and care about each other, and we’d have a Coach who was like Jesus instead of a drunken excuse, and the team would go on to win the Stanley Cup, instead of being sold like waste paper for recycling. And….’ He choked. He picked up the empty whiskey glass, snarled at Denny, ‘How much is this?’ and when Denny replied ‘On the house, guy, you scored a goal tonight’, he.