Nothing too extraordinary, until I saw a manila envelope fall out of her bag. I quickly grabbed it up after she left and stashed it under my coat. We ...were in the final week of class and she was in a great mood. Across the room I could her talking excitedly to her friends about how she had just found out that she had been accepted to her choice Ivy League school. The entrance test had been grueling but she had done it. She looked like it was the happiest day of her life. Time was running out for. Since it was a long drive to the rodeo the family left out about 2:00 and once Hailey and I were alone she told me she wanted to take a shower and she would be down as soon as she could. I was sitting on the couch with my laptop finishing up my notes for the day so that I could email them by morning back to the office. One thing for sure when you get out in the mountains like this things get real quite, eerily quite.Then out of the corner of my eye came this vision walking into the living. No way we were going to walk away from this. "Why did you need my help? You already have the ship." We need the command codes. The Montezuma's Revenge has to repel an attack. We need full battle capabilities." Why should I help you?"The first interrogator got in my face. "Because if not, then your wife and that bitch your traitorous son is going out with will be given special attention." He emphasized the words so that there was no way that anybody could misunderstand the threat.I got the. Mostof the students were attending classes so we made it to the buildingwith no hassle. Once inside the building we passed some security guards.They stood still as rocks, looking rather intimidating and were wearingsunglasses, so I had no idea how much or if they observed us. I wasactually pretty worried because with the baggy clothes and hood I waslooking rather suspicious. But they just let us pass and we reached thedownstairs reception desk.We had previously agreed that Danny would do the.