It was smooth like glass and surprisingly warm.That’s interesting. Logan struggled to remember long-forgotten high school lessons in physics. Warmth... and light mean the crystals are emitting energy of some kind, I think. What was that quote? “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only… transformed? Directed?” He sighed. Dammit, I should have paid more attention in class. Maybe it meant something important, and maybe it didn’t. Clearly, the laws of physics did not entirely apply here in. I did miss you so much and worried everyday whether I would see you again. So what do you want to do now?” I asked.“Well I feel wide awake and want to do something special, just the two of us. Maybe we could go out for the night, it is Saturday and it would be nice to go out like we used to.” Even though Sophie is underage to drink, she looked old and mature enough to go out, and was responsible. This was one of the reasons I trusted her enough to allow her to go abroad. But before she went we. When we stopped for a rest and a cold meal, I decided to talk with him about the energetic young woman I had spent an afternoon swiving."Did you ever hear tell of a colonel in the adjutant's office name of Forbes?" I asked him as we both watched large birds wheel overhead, hawks of some kind. I had found it hard to get the lovely blonde out of my mind, and I was sore as hell, wasted. My balls ached."Forbes, don't tell me you met his wife? Lord, I should have warned you," the captain said,. David figured they were waiting for the realstory to start when the quarantine was lifted. Sure enough the mediawas back in force as they were escorted into a shuttle for debriefing.Now the lot only had a few sleeper news vans in wait for some breakingnews. In this one instance David was thankful for the Government, theykept the media away. His parents weren't badgered by reporters and hiscell phone wasn't off the hook with calls from news anchors because ofthe bullying of good old Uncle.