” Josie hugged me and said, “Sherry is a lucky girl. If Chuck wasn’t your best friend…………” I kissed Josie’s forehead and said, “...I know, babe. I know.” I had had a crush on her since 7 th grade, but Chuck made the move first, and I wasn’t going to interfere at all. She had a crush on me, but now she was Chuck’s girlfriend. Sherry emerged from the girl’s locker room. God, she was beautiful, and I told her so. She gave Josie a hug and said, “Would you like some company waiting for our star. " Do we kill them?" asked the other voice."No. I don't want any bloodshed if you can possibly avoid it. Just slow them down. Five minutes or so, and we'll be at the airstrip. Julian is bringing in the Aeronca." And the girl..." The package," Lawton corrected."The package. You've got it?" We've got it."Dooley stopped the recording."This was Lawton talking this morning," he said quietly. "He was planning to cut us out of the action." He turned to face Lawton. "You were going to fuck us, you. I am surprised they are here already with Kaldrus Dhir only learning your location a few days ago.”“If no one is coming, how do we get out of this? Can we teleport out?”Zaszi shook her head. “They’ve got a jammer in place preventing anyone from teleporting in or out. We would need to make it outside of the jamming field to be able to teleport or open up a portal back to the base.”“Why don’t they just get one of the ships on the moon to come down and take them out?” Mason asked.“Only two of the. It was the last one, the one that had fallen was not moving much. The trick worked again and the canind fell, thirty minutes later I was eating roast canind and watching the forest as I cleaned one of the skins to make crude moccasins. I climbed back into the tree before it got dark and in the upper branches I made a nest.I slept through the night and woke as the sun began to rise above the horizon. I was careful and alert when I climbed down and started walking again. I was really thirsty as I.