"The afternoon had been strange...Kayci was home on a Friday of a three-day weekend, for one. Though we'd moved into this comfortable suburbnamed Tisd...ale just last month, she already had a circle of friends shewas starting school with. No great surprise there...she had a smallframe, glistening light brown hair, and made friends easily. She wasalready on the freshman cheer squad, passing tryouts last week.And then there was me. Being an identical twin to a classic cheerleadertype was no good for. He'd heard that kid gangs' members used to be all the same, all one race or ethnic group. Not any more, that was for sure. Things was too tight all over for that to work these days; you took what members you could get from inside your own turf. They looked back at him, expectantly. He picked up a nugget in one hand, tossed it into the air and caught it again."You all know me well enough to know that I used to get hunches, every once in a while. Well, this other planet is in a universe where. The night before he left we had sex three times. He said it was to tide me over for the two weeks of getting none. He thought I couldn’t go two weeks with no sex. I wasn’t that worried. After all I had a drawer full of sex toys. He said he wanted a full report when he got back. He left on Sunday morning. It was the first time we had been separated since we got married. I waved goodbye and went back inside. Two weeks? It would be a breeze.I did the house work, took Otto for a walk and made. I don't know what I will do if you get hurt." The same goes for me. Now let's find a place to hide the repeater and get out of here."Tom spied a small ledge in a dark area above the artificial illumination. After hiding behind the large shield their own shield was lowered to get the repeater and the two drones. The air was rancid with the heavy smell of unwashed acidic bodies and both urine and faecal matter.Tom climbed on Jim's shoulders with the repeater and eventually Jim had to use his.