The segmented body dripped tar that coated the ground in its wake. Its mandibles ripped through steel plate and into the flesh of Az's defenders with ...ease. Men screamed as it ripped off legs. It scuttled through their midst as they hacked at it with ineffective strokes of swords or thrust with spears, points skittering off the chitinous thing.It wrapped around one man, pouring its oily tar across shining armor. The man screamed as the Hunger's mandibles pierced into his skull. I clenched my. .. Supplicant was there, her head mere inches from mine.I thought, “How is she on that side of the bed? The bed’s against my outside wall.”I thought further, then realized where I was.“Shit! I hope nobody heard her but me,” I thought frantically.I slowly disentangled myself from Rhee, looking over the panoply of bedmates. That provided a calming effect, particularly seeing Heather snuggled so tightly into Dad’s left side, her arm on his chest.I looked back at Supplicant, then slowly rose from. .. we went to the impound lot...One look at the Dodge and Beck started crying ... David was trying not to ... and Chuck said it.“That’s a mess ... there’s no way he could have lived through that.”And it was ... mostly in pieces and damn near unrecognizable as a vehicle. I remembered my duty and looked through the torn up stuff.I was getting frantic.“Ok ... where’s his gun and possibles bag ... and I can’t find the tipi.” I was upset ... that gun was worth two years rent. I kept pawing through. Within a month, we all skied as long as we chose. It became our regular routine.Recently, a new family with two girls moved in next door. Arnold was panting to take them skiing with us. After a couple of weeks, we were neighbors, and Nancy, their sensational looking forty-something mother, agreed to let them come. On the big day, the younger girl came with Nancy. Her sister had plans. Fine with me.This 'girl' was seventeen going on twenty-two and stunning. Heather's figure was mature and she.