Shanks delivered a heater high and outside, and Bolden crushed it. We stood, screaming as the ball traced a parabola toward right center field. Powell...ran back to the wall, jumped, extended his glove hand, and fucking came down with the ball. Fucking Powell, robbed Bolden of a salami. I noticed for the first time that Carla had grabbed my arm, and was squeezing it, but after Powell caught the ball, she let go. We exchanged some kind of look, and she said, ‘Fucker,’ which immediately endeared. Brian realized that she did all that for his benefit, to reinforce that he would never be found unless she wanted it to happen.Ellen opened the door to the outside. Brian saw that she had told the truth. He was in the middle of absolutely nowhere. He could see nothing but wilderness. "By the way, don't even try to think about stealing my truck. It has unique ignition. It will only start with my touch and, even if you could get it started, unless you know where to go, you'll run out of gas. The world around her didn't exist. She figured since the traffic had come to a complete stop she would just put the car in park as the other people around her were doing to conserve gas.The late spring weather was hot and muggy around her and the late days' sun was beaming through her window in on her, and the over shirt that covered her halter top was beginning to stick to her from her body sweating. She took the shirt off and her nipples, despite the heat around her were poking out inches off. The side door, or hatch, opened and a couple of ‘bots came floating out in front of the frightened crowd. There was an immediate rise in noise once again when the crowd saw the ‘bots moving out of the door and taking position near the front of the crowd.A man near the rear of the group said, “Fuck! That’s a space ship. Tom was right. The aliens have landed. Let’s get out of here.” He started running toward the parking lot but was intercepted by security.Lander said, “Larry, I have tightened the.