“You don’t ask for much, do you? Hey, Kelly or your family coming in?”“Kelly will probably be here Thursday afternoon,” I admitted.He smiled... at that. Looking at the rest of the team, he said, “Gentlemen, I hope you haven’t left by then. As ugly as our fearless leader here is, his fiancée is gorgeous.” He turned to me and added, “You know, Grim, if something happens to you back in the Sandbox, as your Number Two, I am duty-bound to step up and take care of all of your duties!”“Riley, that’s a. Her punishment was finally completed, with an extra two strokes for bad behavior and, after desperately pulling up her knickers back over a bottom striped both more extensively and more scarlet than that of her predecessor, she almost ran from the room. The third pupil was called in and caned in the same manner as the second. She had looked rather rebellious so the Headmaster delivered the strokes a little harder and the crimson stripes across her bottom grew noticeably darker, but she managed. That was WEIRD! I turned my body 180 degrees according to my body, but my sight rotated only half as far. When I walked toward walls they 'came at me' nearly three times as fast as my instincts told me they should, which was scary and disorienting. It was not a comfortable experience, and I could easily imagine that it'd be very awkward in a moving, crowded environment like school. I had NO hope of playing soccer this way. However, I could imagine getting used to it. It would take at least. I was moving glacially, but I wanted to be right.Without belaboring the day-to-day of what I was doing, I found reasons to ride with Brad in both his car and his SUV, and planted GPS bugs in each without raising suspicion.I briefed Trudy, frequently and surreptitiously, on my progress. During one of our discussion, I asked how things were."Worse," she said, great sadness coating the word and lining her face. "He hasn't, well, touched me since before I came to see you. He got really snippy last.