I closed my eyes again. For a very long time.Igor had told me I'd hear some thumping or knocking sounds, so when the tapping started I thought that it... wasn't going to be all that bad, but I couldn't hear any music. After about five minutes of the tapping somebody hollered in my earphones and asked if I was okay. I told her yes, and she said "Okay. Ze calibwation is done, so ve'll shtart now, und I vill shtart ze CD."Calibwat... ? Calibration? That tapping was only the calibration? Then what was. In the darkness of the car I could make out Helen, but really couldn't tell much. So I relied on my memories from the airport. She certainly didn't look like a warrior, not that she appeared particularly soft. Her body was indeed soft, but there was something in her eyes. It along with her soft body told me she might kill me, but she wouldn't chase me through the wood to do it. "What happened to your hand," she asked while I was still musing.'Splinters," I said."Shrapnel damage can be. Jack is entertaining Daniel in the VIP room with a game of chess. Daniel wins (albeit complaining that he could've won two moves ago), and Jack suggests a game of gin. Daniel walks over to the closet to get the cards and hears the sound of the Gate dialing again, just like he had back in his room. He opens the closet, expecting he'll find the same thing there he did the last time, but nothing is inside.Returning to the table, they begin setting up the game. However, before they can start,. ‘Well,’ she slumped in her seat, ‘it’s going to get completely out of control if they don’t make it here fast.’ Jerome sneered, ‘Whenever was head office able to do anything fast?’ She didn’t answer but massaged her shoulders. She looked tired and overworked, like all of them. Her white Agency T-shirt was dusty, as was her face and curly brown hair which was tied at a knot. Her hands were either tanned or covered in dust. The red dust from the plains drifted everywhere. In the morning, when you.