I guess they think it’s your fault for the way you raised them.”“Well, I can’t say I’m sorry given how I think that man perverted the Gospel... but I’m sure the new pastor at Grace Church teaches pretty much the exact same thing.”“I’m sure. Can I ask about all the idols in this room? Are you becoming a pagan?”I chuckled, “It depends on how you define that word, but no, I don’t worship Loki or Krishna or Shakti or Shiva. The latter three are here because of Anala. Loki is here because I can relate. Over.”“Roger, Ark 2-3-1. Bravo 1 out.”Having completed his conversation with the Ark, Ahmed sat in his gun truck looking at the radio while thinking about what Bravo Company will need to do the following day. Having organized his thoughts, he headed for his bedroll to get some sleep. A bedroll on a concrete floor is not comfortable, so Ahmed added scavenging mattresses for everyone to his list of things to do in the very near future.Sergeant Major Ava Anderson (Ark 2-3-1), the Signals’ Senior. Why don’t you come out and do a screen test? You might be the girl we’re looking for.’ Then I told her about Corrine’s tendency to overwork her leading men. ‘She can’t seem to control her vaginal muscles,’ I said. ‘A porno flick can survive a shitty script, awful actors, terrible direction and bad photography. The thing it can’t survive is premature ejaculation. And that’s what you get with Corrine.’ I listened to myself in amazement as I glibly rattled on. I had been a pornographer less than. Perhaps we should allocate time during the day for communicating with Alexi.”Ben adds his two cents, “Yeah, I’d like to talk to Thom and see how things are coming with the cabin.”I walk over to the communications console, setup the connection to Gretchen in the tunnels and ask, “Hi Gretchen how are things going?”Gretchen replies, “Things are fine here. Linus worked on the Trojan virus and ran into a dead end.”I queried, “What happened?”Gretchen explained, “Apparently they had a ‘kill switch’ in.