In reality she was scared to move, she could feel herself blush as her body felt the emerging tingling down deep between her legs, like pulsating trem...ors, only different and stronger. She fought unsuccessfully not to fidget, trying to focus and understand what he was saying, but the persistent pressure between her thighs was growing and making her more unsettled. He inched closer to her, continuing to talk as his arm had slipped around her waist and pulled her towards him. His action startled. I remained on active duty for 36 years. I retired as a Navy Captain, (O-6) Commanding Officer of the Naval Training Center in Orlando, Florida on August 1, 1992. MaryAnn missed out on a huge amount of cash. There is a God.EpilogueIn 1986, I was ordered back to the Pentagon to serve as the Officer Community Manager for Limited Duty and Warrant Officers on active duty. I was a bachelor and lived in the Greenhouse apartments just inside the beltway with my two grown sons. Life was good. I was. Waiting. Slowly but surely, a sense of normalcy returned. People began to grow accustomed to these silent beings as work began to resume, schools opened their doors once more, and wars continued to be fought.It started as whispers at first. These 'Shadows' as they were referred to, would grant 'deals' and almost godlike power that enabled people to manipulate the world in such a way that could make the impossible possible. If these deals were broken people would vanish or die. Politicians made. .. absolutely remarkable!" Grove gushed. "Falling wasn't an accident?"Kellie shook her head. "I don't think anything this dinosaur does is an accident, Professor." She watched as the behemoth struggled to its feet-not an easy job, as heavy and disproportionately built as it was-and roared in triumph. She laughed again as the rex chomped down on the middle of the stake and twisted it furiously against the restraining vines. Tough as they were, vines were no match for the rex's bulging neck.