About a half-a-third of a half. When I lowered the bottle I saw Lilly standing, arms crossed beneath her breasts, before me, a miserably patient look ...on her face, compassion and sympathy in her eyes."What happened up there Ike?" she asked while I wiped my mouth with the back of the hand holding the bottle. Somehow I avoided spilling any of the liquor on either myself or the floor, but completely failed to avoid Lilly's piercing gaze."Nothing happened. Nothing at all."Back went the bottle."You. "Hurry please, we need to get into the boat – or we'll all be dead." Then she said something in Chinese and all the Fa's took heed.I took a quick look out through the mouth of the tunnel. It was all dark. You couldn't even make out the edges of the river.I refocused on Li. She was holding a scalpel, and getting out some gauze and some antiseptic powder. I tried to hold a light stick. She was muttering to herself in Chinese. "You hold head still, I try to cut." This was crazy ... she could. ”“One of them knew me from Ohio, right?” I asked.“Yeah, some chick named Becky. When she said where she was from, I told her a guy from that area was coming to the party. She asked your name and when I told her, she said she’d played chess against you.”Yeah, I thought, she played chess against me alright. And stopped taking her birth control pills without telling me. And got pregnant on purpose. Then had an abortion against my wishes. Then seduced me and told me it was OK to cheat on my. “What’s going on, man?” asked Jeremy. “Nothing much, excited for this,” Michael replied. “Me too,” said Jeremy, coming into the house and closing the door behind him. “How about you, Nicole?” he asked, as Nicole came to greet him. “Very excited,” Nicole said as she gave Jeremy a hug. As Nicole began to slowly pull away from Jeremy, he kept her held close and started kissing her. Michael watched as his friend started kissing Nicole, and got excited just from seeing that. Jeremy pulled back a bit.