Adam gave her a strange look, trying to figure out what she was up to. It dawned on him that he was now left alone to deal with his younger children a...d that perhaps Elizabeth could be helpful in that regard."How could she just leave all her children behind? What kind of woman is it that can do that?" he asked."I know, I know. It's terrible and if you ask me you're well rid of her. Come on, let me make you something and then I'll make sure the little ones are okay," soothed Elizabeth.Thomas. He had told her to meet him on Great Mother Earth and join with him in Partnership. He told her it would all be okay if they were together. She said she had watched him for a long time. ***** The tunnel around Madison disappeared, and she fell through a thick substance. Air! She was in air! Would she die!? She was so scared. She had never felt it before. Suddenly, she landed with a hard thudding sound onto something she could not pass through! It hurt her soft body, she had never experienced. She asked, "Have you read that poem . . . the one where people on a bus learn the end of the world is about to happen." McGough's, 'Lunchtime'," I offered."What happens?" Do you even need to ask!" she said.She placed her glass on the side table, stood and went to him. "Dance with me, Sean. Dance with me as if tonight really is the end of the world." She reached out her hand, and he let her pull him to his feet.She turned to me and said, "Richard. Put some music on. That Bowie track I like so. He didn't own a suit and he didn't have money to rent a tux so he didn't ask anyone to attend (not, he supposed, that anyone was likely to consent to go with him). Instead, he had worked at the warehouse that Saturday night, covering Leslie Amos' mother's shift so she could help her daughter get ready. He was happy that Melinda Amos had moved to a different department because she hadn't asked him to work for her this year.The drive to the school was a form of slow torture, Andy decided. Regan.