I’m proud of you.’ ‘And you’re my pride, baby,’ he said. ‘And to answer your question, neither I nor Ben would be in the band today had an...ything happened to you. I can’t speak for anybody else, but I care about you infinitely. If you’d only seen our condition while you were battling for life, you wouldn’t have to wonder if we care.’ He leaned back in bed, took her along with him. ‘I’d never seen Emily cry or break down. I wonder if anybody ever had, she’s always so strong, at least in public.. “Well there`s not a lot left Ada said, surveying the list, Ted sat next to her and said “would you really like to be branded?” she smiled a wan smile, and said if he wanted to brand her she would put up with the pain. She would be happy to wear his mark if that would be his wish. I must have sub-consciously glanced at Matron, because she gave me a long look then asked Ted what it would entail. He explained of the hot metal held for the count of five against the skin, and the permanency of the. "I believe it would be a good test of our new soldiers don't you?" Yuri asked.Moran grinned. "Yes it would. Carson did make the Drow to be the closest thing to the Spartans as he could."Yuri nodded. "Marcus will have the reactor online in one week." She said. "When he does ... we will strike. Send one division of our new troops north to find the Drow city and destroy it and have the remaining four divisions that are ready begin preparations to march on Eden. Combined with our regular troops we. Never rising above Corporal, and that due to length of service, he’d recently taken his twenty year retirement and come home. The pension wasn’t much so he took this job and regularly brought home food that had been on the warming rack too long.Wandering out naked, being as the trailer’s A/C barely worked in the hot Ozark summer, Hanna went for a cold beer, one of their luxuries, or maybe it was an essential. It washed the various food chunks down though. They didn’t speak while stuffing.