Found out if any of the missiles made it through." Esmeralda said, though not really caring about those that were killed."Reports coming in," a tech a...swered her. "Apparently we only lost forty percent. The front line was the only section where almost all were destroyed."The tech shrunk back when the Empress didn't say a thing, though he could see her knuckles white. He also noticed that her grip on the bar before her was starting to bend it.Esmeralda took a deep breath as she started to. ’ The second one shook her hand while burning a hole in her covering with his eyeballs. ‘We were just relaxing and admiring the view after lunch,’ Nan said. ‘Have you boys eaten?’ Where had Nan’s deep Southern drawl suddenly come from? ‘Yes’m. I mean, No’m.’ Jim elbowed Bill to change the response. ‘What he means is that we had a little snack earlier, but not a lot.’ ‘Well, I just know that boys are always hungry. We have some apple left over. Would you like some?’ She turned and bent at the. Female hormones, would do to a boymy age, for as far back as I could remember I've felt like a girl and Iknew that puberty was coming and I dreaded the thought of going throughit as a boy, I saw what it was doing to my brother Mike, he's a freshmanand a year older than me, a natural athlete like my Dad and he wasfollowing in Dad's footsteps, my Dad had been good enough to play collegefootball and Mike, who was only a freshman and on the varsity teamalready, was just as good an athlete as Dad. She watched as Ed looked over the baby with wonder written on his face. John, impatient to see the baby, finally said, “My turn.”“Oh, sorry. It’s just such a miracle,” replied Ed as he backed out of the way. He went over to Ling and hugged her tightly. In a soft whisper, he said, “In nine months that will be you lying there with your child.”Ling hugged him back and joked, “By that time, you’ll be broke in as a father. You’ll know how to change a diaper, feed the baby, and burp her.”John was.