It was a trend that would only last a short while in my opinion.I was willing to bet as soon as Iran came to grips and analyzed the things that had go...e south with Balthazar, the two agents in South Africa and now the three off the Alvan, they would double down on their attempts to get into our defenses.Ben was reporting a decline in net traffic from Iran that I was sure was from a temporary stand-down order from the IRG until they figured out how and how much of their intelligence gathering. I would ask her many questions about her that she always answered, and slowly became quite free with me. But sex never entered my mind! A couple of months later, one day I had a terrible backache and so I came back home early. As it happened, Bimla was home, cleaning up. She was surprised to see me, but was concerned to hear about my back. She sympathized, and asked me what I would do for it. I said that I would eat some medicine, and rest. She said that I should put some balm, and asked me if. .. should ... not have any effect.My body convulsed. I remember falling to the floor and thrashing about like I was in a seizure. I remember a burning sensation all over my skin and pain. I remember the pain was like needles from inside me pushing out from my skin. I remember my eyes blurred and then I blocked out.I woke up and staggered to my feet and tripped over my pants. They had fallen down around my ankles, looking down I felt my head spin, like I was drunk. My eyes tried to focus around. Becky taught home economics but had been out for leave to raise our kids. We had planned for her to go back to teaching in another couple of years. Now, it's all different. We heard some shooting a week or so ago at the mall. However, by the time we got there, there were three guys dead next a SUV with jewelry in the back. We went back home scared because there were some bad people out there." Yes, they were bad guys. Six young people shot them. We met right after that. They had been suspicious.