Damn, girl, you're unbelievable. OK, you've got a deal. I never had a study-partner. This will probably help me keep my nose in my books a lot better.... Well, gotta go." I held the door for her as she walked out to go to her car."Connie? Call me. I want us to be close friends, but my schedule is crazy. So give me a call and we'll get together, OK?"She stopped and looked back at me. She broke into a big smile and said, "I'd like that. I need a friend — a real friend. Thanks! I'll call you later.. The other Apaches had not noticed me because I had not yet left the trees. Therefore, I had time to plan my attack. My biggest worry was that I might be shot from the house as I ran across open country. Well, I couldn't help that, and I would just have to trust to luck.The simplest way for me to eliminate the remaining Apaches would be to start with the nearest one and to work my way from there, much as I had done with the four men in among the trees. The first man I went after was crouched. Set adrift in unbounded spaces, floating like a gas-filled balloon among luminous spheres that pulsed with the heartbeat of the cosmos. He perceived them as higher entities of near-infinite power and wisdom. That was where he truly belonged -- in the realm of the spirit.Escape. The thought had obsessed him for all the years of his childhood. Through long, hard winters of being a misfit, of taunting and torture by playmates and acquaintances. Through endless years of being misunderstood by. It’s an ability normally only shown in Alphas or their families.”“Okay. So Kristen was in love with Rem and after chatting she came up with a plan?”“Well, not really. We escaped right at that moment. She asked for a deal, I agreed and she unlocked the cage. I almost tore her apart in fear of a trick.”“Why didn’t you?”“Hope.”Her gaze looked sullen again. Getting up I moved and sat next to her. One arm over her should she turned and we kissed. What started off a just a tentative kiss meant to.