The program yelled,"There coming for us to take us into the games! Run program for yourlife!" Max ran with the blue-lit program. In the corner of hi...s eye, hesaw an orange disc of light flying towards him, ducking at the lastmoment the disc burned his arm as it grazed him by his bicep. Bleeding,he fell to the ground, as the blue program threw his disc as the enforcerand derezzed him into cubes. "Are you ok? You're a user!" The programwas shocked to see blood flow from his arm. "Do you know. " Dex saw the implied question in Elise's eyes, and it tore at his guts. He put his head in his hands with his elbows on his knees and sat motionless for a while before softly saying "I know what you want to ask. I just don't know the answer, yet." Both were silent a while longer before Dex sat up, took her hand again, and told her "Hey, you came to talk about happy things. Tell me about 'before.'"For an hour and a half, Elise told the story of an amazingly typical All-American girl. Family,. I drove to North Vancouver. I was so stressed out that I almost turned around and came home. Finally I got to their street but parked at the wrong house. I saw Phillippe outside there house and he ushered me in. I must have deer in the headlights look as he put his arm around my shoulders and walked with me into the house. It was summertime and the weather was hot and sunny. He said we should go swimming and asked if I wanted a bathing suit. I said yes without hesitation as I was not ready get. Two of the most serious isotopes in the fallout were cesium-137 and strontium-90. They both have half-lives of about 28 years. It also took several centuries for the ozone layer to recover from being destroyed by the nitric oxides produced by the bombs. The primary lingering health concern from the war is now carbon-14, with a half life of 5600 years. Fortunately the oceans and biosphere have recycled much of it out of the atmosphere.Bandar Arenas is the southernmost city on Earth, at 53 o 10'.