”Dubois: “Can you get us a picture of the room?”Armis broke out her comm unit and an image of four dots and a wireframe drawing of the room appe...red.Melchior handed his pistol to the Senator. “Know how to use this?”The Senator clicked the slide back on the .45, popped out the magazine and slapped it back into place. “Yeah. I was in ROTC and the National Guard for 8 years. I can handle it.”Melchior: “Don’t be afraid to shoot if you need to, but try not to kill them.”MacDowell: “They kidnapped my. ”Shorty was the nickname that had been tacked on to LaVerne. They called him Shorty, because he was only about 4’10” tall. He looked almost like a kid but was actually thirty-one years old, and a light-skinned black dude, and was really kind of cute.Shorty responded, “It wouldn’t be so bad if we had some help here. Only two of us right now to prepare the food and feed nearly forty eaters. We were told we are getting some help but haven’t seen him yet.”Ivan came back, “Actually, Shorty, you have. Her oldests’ husband, our friend Bob, would freight the supplies bought through our partnership. Zeke and I tried to give it to them but Em had a fit. “It was mostly your money that got us here. You’re good luck boys and I want to hang on to that. If you like I can plough your shares back into the company and send you financial statements twice a year, but I ain’t lettin’ you pull out.”Her second oldest daughter and her youngest were staying to cook for the camp. The older one was being wooed. I look at the contents , a small hand drawn map , and the letter . I read the letter .'Jack, we are glad you took this job , find the map, it will help you find your way to the temple with the small village near by. We would not recommend you going in to the village after you visit the temple as they will search you from what our sources say. If you go before just bring some things from town that are not easy to find in the village , perhaps some medicine, rice or something. Either way , we.