In a minute, I’m gonna ask you to give the phone to Beck. She’s coming over here. Lana and Emma are here already. What I need from you is to call ...me a couple of minutes before you send Lilly home. Can you do that?”“Sure. What’s going on?” she asked, surprised and concerned.“I’ve decided Marlene’s lived too long,” I said softly. “Tonight I’m going to start adding up everything that she’s done and start laying plans to fix the oversight her continued existence creates.”“Don’t do this, Matt,” she. . you know... .'Mr. Southerner's smile became ever so slightly frustrated, and Mike's chest swelled. Neither, however, looked surprised.'Would that be acceptable then?' Mr. Southerner asked, and rose from his sitting position.'Sure,' said Mike simply.'Y-yes,' said Rachel.'Well, then I think it's time I left. A pleasure to meet you, Ms. Foster. I hope you'll be working here in no time. For now, I leave you in the capable hands of my associate.'He reached up to shake Rachel's hand. His grip was. The old creaky thing once I managed to press the button rumbled to its only other stop on the second floor. Kept when they turned the twenties era bus garage, housing and maintaining the buses of a long defunct line taking travelers as far west as St Louis, the bus station across the street remodeled into a small mall housing arts and crafts boutiques, the elevator gave a slow joy ride of imminent failure.Once the car settled into place and the door opposite the one I entered opened, I set down. Learning to put in the effort now would go a long way to easing her experiences once she got there. He even got the Commander to agree to give them a close proximity to the coming experience for those who might go to the academies. That lead to two hours of rigorous training, where for the first time the Commander became a hard task master who could not be pleased.They did PT, then weapons inspections, and drill and ceremony, all under the watch of a very demanding Commander, who was screaming.