S.Wrapped in a surplus wool barracks blanket, Graydon opened the wooden-sash window beside his bed to feel the rising wind blow in. The smell of dust ...was heavy in the air, the musty wet smell of the first raindrops. He could hear the big drops splattering in the elm tree outside his window, with the rising hissing, sound of the increasing rain rushing down through the cottonwood trees beyond. Chilled air through the window began smelling of sweet elm sap. He marvelled at all he could hear and. Why should I do it just to satisfy your workmates' curiosity?" There could be something unusual going on inside you," I said. I explained about the cells I'd taken from her, which should have been purple the following morning but weren't. And the fact that she should have been howling in pain from her vagina long before she came down with the ass-ants."So it's more than just curiosity - there's something different about me?" It looks that way. The ones in the vagina look to have been there for. "Look, Evan, please, just listen, okay? I know the truth." The truth about what?" About... about everything! All the crazy stuff that's been happeningover the past week!" I gestured aimlessly with one hand. "I know allabout it." Oh. So you know why Elizabeth has been looking for you then?" Yes, exactly!" That's great! Then you should speak to her about it! I don't know whathappened to put you two against each other, but it's been tearing her upinside." Evan, you were there in that restaurant.. “Brian, you are executor of my will and will have power of attorney over all my personal and financial affairs. It’s a pretty simple will. I don’t have any real property to speak of. But you need to watch my bank accounts and make sure I’m not just putting my money in a checking account that doesn’t earn anything. I’ll have an account on base that I’ll keep my general expenses in so you don’t have to worry about that, but some of this stuff needs to be transferred into stocks or mutual funds..