What's got me scared is that they'll get Zahl into their craziness." You're not giving Zahl much credit, Jazz," Pru said as the 'mobile moved along th... wide, even way that led toward the CA, passing fields of vegetables and orchards of fruit trees that supplied the Area."I know, Pru. But, he's not doing himself much credit, either. Playing war games — that's just kid stuff. But, this Islamist business makes me really worry."Jazz pulled the 'mobile into a parking area outside a portal and. Only five days earlier the water had been open."I've been fishing this lake my whole life," the man said with a laugh.The ranger and I eventually left and headed on our separate ways.I thought I had heard the sound of cranes in the distance. I wondered if there might be some open water and they might be swimming in one of the bays. I headed in the direction that I thought the sound was coming from. I had to fight the wind, but knew it would be helping me on the return trip.I arrived at the bay. This, she thought, was not at all unpleasant, just like touching her own lips in fact, which is what she spontaneously did with the fingers of her other hand. On an impulse she pursed her lips, and sucked a finger into her mouth, to discover that the door responded in the same way, and quite suddenly she found herself being sucked head first through the orifice.The feeling of the lips on her naked skin as she slithered her way through to whatever lay on the other side, was just like being. It cost them sixteen thousand dollars.”Henry asked, “Did it have a copper center overlaid with gold leaf?”“Yes,” she answered confused by the fact that he knew exactly what her friend’s parents had purchased. She had gone over to their house and stared at it in envy the night they had it installed on their living room wall. She had told her grandmother about it and they had gone out and ordered one that same day.Bill said, “That was the third one that Henry and Dad built.”The announcement.