Milly told me she had always been a heavy sleeper and as she reached her teenage years her mother would work a twilight shift and her father would alw...ays put her to bed and then check on her an hour or so later and during the hot summer months she would sleep in just her knickers and she was convinced that something went on because she would wake up to strange stains on either the bedsheet or har panties, sometimes both. She recalled one night when she wasn’t asleep but pretended to be so she. .. step ... STEP)Cassie staggers back. Shoes rap against tile floor. She whimpers and stares into the illusionary distance. "Wake up ... wake up ... I have to WAKE UP!"(STEP ... STEP ... STEP)From the mist, a dark shape takes form. Cassie bites her lip hard to quell a scream and flees in the other direction. She plunges into the mist and shrieks when darkness envelops her. She runs blind into the dark, reaching out with her hands on either side to reassure her that something is still there. A. He said he was going to check out a van that had parked somewhere on the third level.I said, "I already found it, smells like diesel fuel and nitrate. We need a slim jim to open the door to see if we can disarm the timer."He said, "I'll get ATF out here, they'll take care of it." Why wait, let's get this done." Look, Buddy, what if the bomb is hooked up to the truck battery so that if the door opens the bomb goes off."He had me there, I replied, "Okay, hurry, let's evacuate the building. If. .. of course. Is it all right if I call my wife? She'll be really excited when she hears." Sure," I said, pleased at his enthusiasm. I stood and walked around the desk, holding out my hand. Terry took it and we shook heartily. "Congratulations, Terry. You've earned this."I started plotting my move to the new office if for no other reason than to give myself something to do for the next two hours. Janice stopped in to tell me that the men would be in to move the furniture sometime after eleven.