.. yet. The organizers seemed to be mostly college ... Central Michigan and Ferris State, but there were a few from the Fed.Many of the young men were... out foraging for wood. The park was west of Piney Ridge Rd and gathering deadfall or dead standing was legal. This far from the beach meant there was plenty. Several chainsaws were roaring in the timber and loads were being fetched. A designated fire pit had a growing pile ... nicely stacked, too.Just after 8, Jan Mendoza showed up with the. They were identical twins and it took me few days to differentiate from one another. Since I also looked young somehow they ended up calling me by my name, Sruthi.I was in a bad mood on that day and the broken elevator rubbed salt to the wound. I stormed into the house and asked the twins to sit. I was so furious that I decided that unless I took a bath I wouldn’t relax. I gave some work to the twins and went into my room. I removed my shirt and with some difficulty I removed my jeans also. I. "Not a plant, not in the Earth based sense of the word. It doesn't even have DNA, and least not based on the same amino acids we use. I think this might be an alcohol-based life-form, rather than a water-based life-form. It's so badly decayed, it's difficult to tell. The leaves have a vague celluloid structure, but... Oh heck Eli, they can't be leaves." Why not?" The decay is so bad I can barely make this out, but there doesn't seem to be anything to suggest a stem direction. It's all. "We can use the ruins as a landmark if we stray far." He explained. "Allison, Mary and Lisa. Fly up a few hundred feet and scout around."Allison radioed back, "Nothing nearby except the ruined building, but there is a Quonset hut sort of thing, some cages and a tall fence over there. I'm guessing about a half mile away." She pointed past the ruins."OK. Everybody on the ground. Mental and radio silence unless there is an emergency. We walk from here. Phoebe, Star, Spring and I will lead off in a.