Standing behind her I placed my blade gently on her shoulder, thenpushed down just as gently until she was kneeling.I walked in front of her and using... the tip of my blade lifted her faceto look at me. "Chelsea Hollingsworth, I don't know what I did todeserve your hatred. But I forgive you for it, I hope you will learn tolet things go and just enjoy the competition for it's simple pleasure,"I reached out my open hand to her waiting as she looked at it and beganto cry, her hands covering her. The vertical bolt at thebottom of the door had been jarred loose and slid into it's hole in thefloor. I was locked out, keyless and hopeless! I had horrificpremonitions of my mother letting me in and forcing me to explainmyself. How the hell do I explain this? I didn't buy this girlyunderwear by accident. This mini-skirt didn't fall out of the attic (orfrom heaven for that matter). Pigtails are not the latest craze forteenage boys. All this is obvious, but why am I dressed like this? Ihave no. Alone in my room I discovered the closest I sounded like a man was when I whispered. "Sorry, I didn't hear that?" was the reply."I am a man," I said with voice barely above a whisper. The creature looked at me up and down with ill-disguised lust behind his eyes. He grabbed my hat and tugged it off, a wave of shoulder length wavy red hair came crashing down. I hadn't had it cut, because I hadn't had the confidence to visit a barber. "You're guy, are you?" he didn't give me time to answer, "You. CENTRAL COMMAND We’ve lost contact with everyone outside the city! What the hell is going on out there? CELESTE Whatever was attacking villages in the savage lands just wiped outpost four off the map. The recon team is all that’s left. i don’t think we’re going to survive. CENTRAL COMMAND Listen to me soldier. You drop everything and get back to the city with your intel at any cost. That’s an order! PANEL 25: She flips off the screen as a display conforms engines engaged. CELESTE Sorry Central.