"C'mon…You playin' with yourself again Mister Givens? Speed it up! Jake is waiting."It was plain that Cole had little choice. He hurriedly fastened ...is belt and slicked at his remaining hair and then Sally pushed him towards the front door. The girl still hadn't showed as the door slammed shut."We'll take my car Mister Givens. That way I can always bring you back…if your story checks out." A forlorn Cole Givens looked back as the car accelerated down the drive. At that moment there was little. I tried to remember the college that just gaveme a full-ride scholarship. The name of my high school. The name of mybest friend. My own name. Nothing. Tears started to form in my eyes."Hey, don't cry. It'll ruin your makeup." It was a deeper voice thistime. My voice. I looked up, and up, and what I saw was myself. Myold self. He took the cell phone from off of the bench, pressed thescreen a couple times, then showed it to me."Ugh, I an barely see anything in that last picture I. ”Shea said. “It makes him happy and that should count for something.”Just then they ran into the shore leave group of the Jammer and Captain Lia Bassett. Also about twenty members of her crew, most of them known Upward and Spinward species.Har-Hi counted Eight Humans, four Jooltar, two Togar, five Shiss, and one Zarin.Zarins were virtually unknown to Union science but well known to the Dai. The Zarin were native to even more distant regions of the Downward sector if he recalled what he knew. I so want to see Lynch hanging from a tree, not that there were any on Darling Downs, but I'm writing this from a cabin on Freya. The last of the Wadi troops were pulled off Darling Downs this morning. Erica isn't with me. She's being taken to Borneo on one of the corvettes. Our tank as well as Horace's tank are in a transport pod attached to the Peterbilt, a stagecoach class freighter that Freya escorted to Darling Downs so they could get the last equipment off before they abandon the planet..