Not meeting my eyes, she asked if we could leave.I guided us away from the club and into the quasi-privacy of the dunes before stopping and forcing he...r to face me. Emily was near hyperventilating, and I could tell she was struggling to hold back tears."It'll be all right," I tried to soothe."No it won't!" she cried, angrily wiping away the tears that trickled down her cheeks. "Everyone thinks I'm just some 'spoiled little brat.'" Well, aren't you?" No!" Then why do you keep acting like one?". ”“That brings up another topic, Porter,” the captain turned to him, “surely your lifeboat came equipped with weapons and tools to survive on a hostile planet.”Porter picked a piece of meat from between his teeth, “The day is not long enough for me to explain thoroughly the materials that should have been in the lifeboat and the reasons why they were not present. My job in the emperor’s service was not so different from those misguided idiots who saved a penny here and a penny there on the cost. Maybe it was going too fast. She said that she had a confession. She wasn't stalking me but she knew who i was and where i lived. She went on to say the that she has seen me almost every weekday on the bus for the past year. it would seem that seem that she got on two stops after i got on in the morning. I wondered and then asked, "how come i've never noticed you." she said she never really dressed in a way to get noticed and that she always had her head in a book. she went on to say. I flung him off and tried to crawl forward to the protection of the fence.I received several more nips as the dogs pranced around me. I swung my arms at them, trying to drive them off. Several more attempts were made to jump onto my back, which I managed to defeat. Then Tom jumped forward and bit harder still on the fleshy part of my arm as I swung at Rex.I squealed and jumped to my feet, forgetting about the sandals I was wearing. Bolts of pain shot up my legs and I went flying forward. I fell.