Momma, get some blankets for our guests."Jen looked at Mr. Johansen and replied, "That's a good idea, thank you."Goodyear Heights, OhioRhonda and Shaw...n walked into the convenience store and started gathering junk food for the night's expected vigil. They chatted away like magpies. "TC gave me a Placida Domingo box set for my birthday, and I haven't had a chance to hear it. Hobo hates opera, so I have to wait for him to leave the house before I can play it. He's still in the hospital so we have. The girls waited beside me waiting my commands.The Slicers were ordered not to approach and their seemingly mindless patrols opened the intruder’s path to the right unless they wanted an immediate confrontation. Our ‘Guests’ didn’t, and chose the right path as I planned. And hoped.The Battle Slaves were told to ambush them. I couldn’t see their actions but only the positions on the maps as dots. I waited until the dots were grouped and sent in two Slicers with orders to support the Battle. I've read that the sex of a fetus can be determined as early as ten weeks. I'm sure the clues are there, I just don't know how to read them.}{Are you ladies all packed and ready to go?} I asked.{Packed and loaded, } Missy told me. {We loaded everything into the RV last night while you were having fun with Cindi. We even packed and loaded your stuff.}{I appreciate it, Missy, but you know I am capable of packing for myself. When I was George, I traveled for years for work and I always packed for. We stopped in a rural area, hid the RV as best we could behind a service station nestled into the side of the steep bank above the great river, and took the night off from radio calls.If there was anyone out there alive, even someone who'd heard my radio broadcasts, they had no way to know where we were on this night. That's the way we both wanted it. I think some of my fear had been transmitted to Bridgett. That was unfortunate. She had been a more trusting soul than I was, despite her being.