Night fell and I just felt drained. Eh, stuff happens, maybe she’d open her phone by the morning. I awoke to a morning where time had stopped on the... Sarah front.Still no answer. Not one. The hours of the morning passed excruciatingly slow. I’m not one to wait around forever to deal with potential problems. I decided that she had seen the notification and had wanted to avoid a friendship-altering conversation. Yes or no? I needed to know. And so I sent Sarah a much longer message that was very. "The only risk is if your or JJ's cell phones are switched to broadcast. That is a low probability, but still possible. I don't know if I would detect it if that happened because the signal is always there." Thanks, Al," Caleb said, before reaching for the phone on his belt."JJ, would you take the battery out of your phone, please," Caleb asked, as he proceeded to remove the battery from his own."Sure," JJ said, as she fished her phone out of her purse. When the battery was out, she asked, "Why. ’ The sergeant showed Vera and the other recruit where they were to stand, half hidden in the wood but overlooking the stockade. Vera stared into the night watching the guard towers and the shadows of the soldiers who manned them. At dawn she, along with the other twenty nine other raw recruits, was going to storm the stockade. She wondered how many would make it out alive. Behind her she could hear the quite susurration of the others as they chatted. The closer they got to the action the. The smile vanished from her face. I started to smile a little, hoping this wouldn’t ruin our relation. Her eyes started to get damp. I moved my right hand up and took a strand of her hair and curled around her ear. She suddenly took a step back, breaking contact with me. “9:30,” she said, looking down at my knees, “Get to her house by 9:30,” then she took off for the door and picked up her jogging shoes. She ran out of the house screaming, “I’m going out for a run.”I was left there thinking.