It will get better." I say over my shoulder sympathetic. When he doesn't reply. I ask Saber, sitting next to me for some help. "Saber could you see if...you can find some mint leave in my script?" Sure," he picks up my herb bag and starts to paw through the contents. "What do they look like?" They are green and smell like mint." I say, some what unsure. I only have Saul's say so for what is int there."um" Saber paw's through the bag with no success.Gunga Din sighs and says "Give me the bag." he. I was helpless against the smile that had already bubbled too close to the surface to control. I could see him smile back. I waived to him. I would do better by Gary now. I not only wanted to, I needed to.Gary fled the steps of my dorm building and crossed the street striding with a wide gait and a single-mindedness that I knew was a desire to be around me. I could feel in my heart that he did not see Mike as I saw Gary. He looked at me and saw Michelle. As afraid of that as I was, I was also. Then I remembered the client list and looked through it. Pressing the quick dial number for my client, I sat back."Jacobstien's office," a lady said."Hi, this is Derek Youngblood…" I began to say."Ah, yes," the lady interrupted. "He is expecting to hear from you. I will transfer you to him now."I smiled as I sat back in my chair. "Derek?" a man said."Yes sir," I replied as I picked up the handset taking it off speakerphone."Derek," the man said. "If you're going to be my new accountant you. We were sitting ducks; these vehicles were not well armored. Then the gunfire from AK47s started - there was plenty of it - and it was getting closer. There was no way to tell if they were the Pakistan army or the terrorists.Radio traffic said there were terrorists in army uniforms walking beside the vehicles, firing into them.‘‘We have no chance trapped in the vehicles but out there we have a fighting chance,’’ I said.The Mossad girls and the two Secret Service agents agreed. I ordered a ten.