The two humans remained in kneeling positions, and placed the rifles on the ground at their side. Then they, nearly simultaneously, started talking to... Jay, struggling to stand, unsure if their muscles still worked properly. She stilled their questions with an open hand gesture.Jay: 'M'am?'Meriah: 'Yes?'Jay: 'Thank you for releasing my comrades.'Meriah: 'Of course. We had no intent to harm you. If we wanted to kill you all, The Grahhll would have done so before you even landed. But we determined. First, though, I will have to get a sense of time".And so another day had passed and, although not accurate to the time outside the cave, Zax managed to dedicate a small portion of his concentration to a twenty four hours cycle of time....WUSH!VISH!PHU!Zax's body caused all the possible wind's sounds as he practiced the bodily maneuvers. Slow, fast, deep breaths, shallow breaths ... all were executed as they should in the first three cycles and only the rhythm lagged behind.As more days. Something was nagging me in the back of my mind.I had to start somewhere. To rebuild a security team from the ground up when I already knew that the old one had been compromised would be digging my own grave.There was my grandfather’s recommendation. That even though Nick had failed him, Grandfather still felt he was the best there was. It was basically all I had to go on. Other than my gut feelings.Adam’s voice came to me again, “If you so desire, I can start vetting a new security chief.”I. I'd be able to get with a girl for once. Any girl!"Gordon knew that this was an impossibility though, and he raised himselfup into a sitting position. He looked down at his stomach, which hungdown and often prevented him from even seeing his own genitals when usingthe bathroom, and sighed. "Screw the girls. Man, at least I wouldn't havethis fucking weight to carry around in his body."It was at this moment, as Gordon stared at himself and loathed his ownbody, that a paper suddenly drifted to the.