The antennae clamped as high on the main house as I could manage. George promised the battery on the modem would be good for twice what I needed. Ther...e was a sunny parlor. I set my laptop on a table the scouts made. If I did not need to write, it was good enough. I turned everything on and checked it, then powered down.That done, I went to find Sarah. She was making a broom from a fallen branch and some evergreen boughs. That was one thing I forgot. A clipboard was another. I hoped I would. We started about normal chat as nor she was regular nor I.I mean we both never used to come online together, so we just used to send offline messages to each other. She was from park circus(Kolkata) n I was from salt lake same city. Den one day I send the a offline message to her that mam can v manage a time m together to come online, den v came online together. V started again normal casual talk so she said me she belongs from reserved family n all so she cant come online all d time when m. Lucas and I went over and over the sentences Tanner had said, trying to think about what they might mean. First, was ‘I’m not finished with you yet.’ I thought that was self-explanatory; we were due to get more trouble from him in the future.‘Watch your every step, ‘ could be a broad warning or a specific statement. When did we ‘step’ where we were vulnerable to attack or perhaps falling into some kind of trap? The only place that seemed predictable was my office or The Meadows. The condo and. Vigilantly she scanned her surroundings for the slightest sign of danger. She was almost to the end of the alley, and had started to relax somewhat, when she heard a sound like the crackle of electricity. She whirled around to see what had made the noise and was startled by a tall thin man standing barely two feet away. He was dressed in flowing black robes, his greasy black hair was shoulder length and framed his pallid face. The shock of this imposing figure appearing seemingly out of.