.. A series of crashes from above resounded as the upper echelon of the Blessed Army burrowed in the earth like fish in water. Zax ignored them and la...id his eyes and at the confused and fearful Debuk Jin. He saw the holographic interface next to the man and could read the distress call on the blue panel – it was in Netherling.Debuk Jin opened his mouth, but by his expression it was difficult to determine what line of words he was formulating. His eyes lingered on the killing intent in the. Finally after much debate with mom, on Monday (3 days before the interview), I placed an order for a white short formal shirt, which didn’t require tucking in and a black skirt, which ended just above my knees (or so I thought). Both of which I ordered in M (Medium) size, without giving much thought to it.As luck would have it, the prime delivery got delayed and the order which was going to arrive on Tuesday, actually arrived on Wednesday afternoon, and I had the interview on Thursday, the very. Inoticed the old fashioned corset, done up in the same shiny, gleamingblack satin as the rest of the outfit. It looked small like thebriefer. I then realized that Terry had clothing in different sizesjust like I did. I never bothered to ask a real woman if they did thesame. But I remember hearing two women talking about shoes and how onewanted to have a particular pair to match an outfit but the store onlyhad a pair two sizes too small. She said she bought them anyway andcould get away. Parties, outfits, dinners, hair-dressers, bargain hunting, everything between them seemed to be some kind of competition. To hear the family tell it, they had always competed over everything since they were k**s. That day was no different and they were soon talking about chicken-fights. We'd done a lot of that the previous summer, and before much longer Mom was up on my shoulders and Aunt Marie was on Colin's, each trying to knock the other one off. Mom was giving me grief, threatening physical.