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Sunday, November 4 to Sunday, November 11, 2007
Everyone in my families dropped out of everything: Carol and Donna stopped attending school, Julia, Ava and I stopped attending OSU, and the parents stopped going to their workplaces. For the parents, that statement was true only most of the time because if I was spending the day with Mom and Dad primarily, then Prof and Vanessa could do some urgent work that day, but it had to be VERY urgent. The girls were out of the education process totally though.
One thing I felt acutely was that ten days is a terribly short time to say goodbye to eight people you love. I gained a bit by not needing much sleep because I could stay up with some of my loved ones, who'd catch up with their lost sleep while I was with the others.
They suggested I delay my departure until after Thanksgiving, but that would add a couple more very hard weeks and the 'celebration' would be ruined, so I stuck to the schedule.
Many of our family friends and colleagues became concerned and called to inquire. When the time required to field the calls got too much - and we all had a very low tolerance for wasting our time these days - we turned our phones off. That especially alarmed the girls that called Julia, and many of them drove to our place. As instructed, our gate security told every that we weren't receiving visitors until my birthday party.
Julia was certainly the hardest hit by my leaving. I was her purpose in life and she was already feeling lost at my going soon. She'd adapt. She's smart, driven, business oriented and enormously rich, so she'll find things to do. Her parents will make sure of that.
In that respect, my leaving on an over-sold mission was very helpful. I was able to say things like, "Julia, you trained me to accept responsibility, to have confidence in myself and be willing to take on large projects. It's thanks to you that I can do this VERY important thing..." Stuff that made her proud of herself, and gave her a sense of "mission accomplished" about me. Hopefully that'll make it easier for her to find a new mission.
Carol was DETERMINED to have my babies. She put her foot DOWN with Mom and Dad and prepared for a knock-down-drag-out battle.
Mom and Dad said, "Of course you have our consent. As soon as you've graduated high school and turned eighteen so its legal, then you can have as many as you want. We think it's a wonderful idea. How many do you want?" Their agreement surprised Carol.
Ava said she'd like to start immediately after Carol.
They both asked my consent and I told them, "I'd be honored and our babies will be the luckiest kids in Oregon to be bought up in such a loving family."
Donna was told by Mom, "We'll see how you feel when you're eighteen." That was good enough for Donna, who wasn't even sure how she felt now.
Julia was embarrassed about her losing enthusiasm for the babies idea.
I told her, "You don't need to have one of my babies to prove to me that you love and have pride in me. You've been singing both from the rooftops since our first date. Don't ask me who, but I've heard some people say that you get a little bit carried away when you're praising me. I know you love me with every fiber of your being. We both know what you're driven to do and that's what you should do. Let Carol and Ava find their role in life with their babies; you can have your mega-company."
Nevaeh was an issue I left to my girls as I wouldn't be around for the consequences to matter to me. They liked Nevaeh a lot, and they decided that they'd still like her to move into our home. It'd be a different dynamic without me there so it may not work out, but they could always ask her to move back to her parents if that was the case. Nevaeh was in the same grade as Carol, so they had some commonality there and Nevaeh wouldn't be 'slowing down' the Kids' lives any more than Carol would. If Julia set up a business in New York, for example, then Carol and Nevaeh would be equally able to move there with Julia.
Especially because my girls wanted to keep their relationship with Nevaeh going, I should spend some time with her before I leave. With so few days remaining, no one wanted me to spend a lot of time with her, but it would be unfair to Nevaeh if she didn't know that what time she spent with me was to say goodbye, so we invited her to come over Friday after school. Friday was the 9th and my birthday although we were having its party the next day. The 13th would be on Tuesday.
I told Nevaeh, "I've got some fairly major news. Sometime Tuesday or Wednesday next week, God is sending me to do an important job..."
"Oh boy! You do amazing things."
"You can say that again," agreed Julia unhappily.
"It's a BIG, important job, sweetie. It's going to take the rest of my life and I won't be coming back. After next week, you, Julia, Carol, Ava and my families will never see me again."
"Oh. Umm, can't you visit? Or we could visit you in the plane if you're too busy."
"It's not on Earth, Nevaeh. God is taking my mind and my soul, and taking them to wherever souls go. Because my soul is so pure, He wants me to work there."
"Wow. Will you be able to visit, like the angels have?"
"God has already told me to make sure I say goodbye properly to everyone who's important to me because I won't be coming back. I'll never see any of you again after Tuesday or Wednesday."
"Not your parents or Julia or Carol or anyone?"
I shook my head.
"Oh no! That's terrible!..."
"No it's not, sweetie. I'll be doing an important job for God. Remember I was dead a few months ago, and now I've met my family again, had chances to tell them I love them and say goodbye to them properly, and I've had the good fortune of meeting you. Well, not really 'good fortune', considering the Guardian Angel made you stand naked on the side of the street so we couldn't miss you. I don't think that can be called luck, can it?"
"Aren't any of you sad?"
Julia answered, "We cried when Mark first told us, but that was mostly because we didn't understand. We're sad and we're going to miss him terribly, but this is far better than it was few months ago."
"I suppose. It still seems very sad to me. I want to cry but I can't because you're not."
"You can cry if you want, but the reason we asked you here was to give you some time alone with him to say goodbye. We'll leave you to it. Give him a good time, Nevaeh; it's going to be his last memory of you and him being alone."
"Oh boy, {sniff}. I feel like crying."
I pulled her into a hug and said, "There, there," whereupon Nevaeh burst into tears.
#7:
Nevaeh didn't cry for long. I'd like to take credit for that, but I suspected there might've been other reasons.
I held Nevaeh while she double-checked her understanding of the situation, triple-checked that she'd NEVER see me again, then decided that some sex would be an excellent use of our time. I would've thought it'd be the last thing she'd want to do. (That's a bad choice of phrase given that this was her last time with me. I'll just say that I was very surprised by her wanting sex. I guess I don't understand girls yet.) [[I'd always been VERY happy to have sex with her, and she wanted to make me happy. She believed that to be a large part of why God had put her into my life, because she knew that her beauty was the only way in which she excelled, and we'd all praised her for being so enjoyably joyful and happy with sex.]]
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#21:
We were still warming up, when Nevaeh asked, "Where are Julia and the others?"
"In the spa pool."
"You and they are going to miss each other a lot more than you'll miss me. I think they should be here instead of me, Mark. I love you, but they're more important. Julia is going to miss you VERY much, isn't she?"
"Yes, she's going to be hurt. I'm glad you're her friend."
"I'm glad I am to. I'll go and get her for you."
"How about we all share? How does that sound?"
"Sharing is good." She's heard that from us a thousand times. With four kids in her family, probably from her parents too. I don't think I'll take the time to send them a thank you note though.
"Stay here, sweetie. I'll send the Guardian Angel to get the girls." The last few words were said with a raised voice, and the Guardian Angel conveniently got the hint. It's been very cooperative since I knew I'd be leaving. That must be part of God's new employment package, or something.
When my girls returned to the room, I said, "Nevaeh was going to leave because she wanted to give her time with me to the three of you. I suggested that we share. Would you like to come to bed."
Nevaeh got a considerable amount of praise and special attention.
Afterward, I told Nevaeh, "Please don't tell anyone about my job until after I've gone."
"I won't. I know I have to keep quiet about your secrets."
"Thanks, sweetie. At the end of my birthday party I'm going to ask my favorite guests to stay late, which will obviously include you, and I'll be telling them what we told you a few minutes ago, so they'll have a chance to say goodbye to me..."
"Oh boy. It's going to be a VERY sad party."
Julia said, "We'll be trying to keep it happy, but it's going to be very hard not to cry a lot at the end. We know Mark will be going away to do something special, but we're still going to miss him terribly."
Nevaeh needed another hanky, especially after I added, "That's the last time you and the other party guests will see me, Nevaeh. After that, I'll be spending all my remaining time with my families."
When Nevaeh was over the worst of it, I added, "Part of the reason God resurrected me was as a lesson about how evil the Government is getting, so God's probably going to do something reasonably dramatic when He takes my soul on Tuesday or Wednesday. From what the Guardian Angel has told me it'll be on the news and it's very important to keep my real reason for leaving secret or you'll spoil God's plan..."
"I won't tell ANYONE Mark! I'd NEVER do that."
"Thanks. I'll be asking my favorites the same thing at the end of the party too. It's very important for the safety of my families too, so I'll be making a big deal about keeping it secret.
-- "The last specific thing to tell you is the Guardian Angel has told me that after I go, God will be releasing you and the other eight girls from the oaths they've taken, and it wants you to tell them that after I leave. Okay?"
"I will. I wish you didn't have to go though."
"You've got NO IDEA how much I wish I didn't have to, but it's kind of hard to say 'No' to God."
"Yeah. I'm so glad He let me get to know you. If you can, can you thank Him for me please."
"I'm sure He knows how you feel. He was smart enough to pick you for me in the first place. Look how well you fit in with us." [[Not that she'd had much choice about the major parts of that, given the overwhelming psychological tricks we'd played on her. Her basic personality was a very moral one and such people are very nice to have around once their sense of superiority is eliminated. She had fit in well.]]
"It's been WONDERFUL! I'm sorry I was only in your life for such a short time. It's only been four months, and we didn't do anything except be good friends and have sex."
"Then maybe that's what God wanted, sweetie. Maybe He wanted me to have a good time before I was taken away again. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but your body pleases me very much."
"I think you have mentioned that."
"Knowing what I know about God, that wouldn't have been His only reason. It's a VERY good reason, and I'm certainly going to thank Him for that, but I'm sure He had others. Maybe He wanted you to learn the truth about sex, or maybe His main reason was so you and my other girls can remain friends after I've gone."
"Oh yeah. Umm, what's going to happen..."
Julia interrupted, "You're still invited to live here, Nevaeh. It might take a week or two for us to be ready for company again, but then we'll go to your parents and ask permission for you to move in as soon as possible. We'll set up a spare bedroom to look like it's yours, but we'll all be sleeping in Mark's bed together. That is, if you still want to after Mark's left?"
"I'd LOVE to, Julia. It'd be FANTASTIC, I just wish Mark could still be with us."
"So do we," echoed Carol and Ava. I was in full agreement with them.
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The baddies were still up to no good, as is their nature. Quite a lot of no good actually, because their bosses were very eager to get blood and EEG samples, neither of which are easy to obtain surreptitiously and both of which I was determined not to let them have. They did some very clever thinking to invent ways of getting those samples without me knowing it'd been done and with no baddie coming within five hundred feet of me. We had to admire their imagination and expertise. Their plans being admired was all we permitted though; we waited until they'd set everything up, and then I'd get a hair cut while I was in LA rather than from my usual hairdresser, for example. It was pissing them off highly and it easily kept them stalled for the days we required. [The New York hotel room incident, which had been the first escalation into areas I objected strongly to, was on October 13, four weekends after we returned from Noumea. I'd rolled the twelve 6s on November 1 and told my families about my Voyage on the 3rd. My Un-Resurrection Day would be on the 13th. It was only the last couple of weeks that the baddies' actions were frequently annoying; previously we'd had to dodge something only once or twice per week.]
Soon after my "I'm leaving" announcement to my families, we'd told Paul about the baddies, telling him, "The Guardian Angel discovered them for us." We immediately put our staff onto monitoring the bugs I'd placed because none of the families wanted to waste valuable Be-With-Mark time on that activity. To Paul's and our guards' frustrations we weren't taking any active countermeasures, vetoing their suggestions with, "The angel has its own plans."
By now - a few days before my departure - every déjà vu included me and my déjà vu partner swapping stories about every Risk Taker's Strategy that we'd heard about: what those Marks had done, what information they'd obtained, and what results they'd achieved and were still achieving. That had rapidly become a large number of reports. All of us Marks learned a lot of facts about the surveillers, their bosses, the operation, etc. There were some minor contradictory elements, but they were due to dimensional differences and weren't important; 99% of the situations were the same.
Several of the tested Risky Strategies had run their course and had worked very well, and most of the Waiting Marks had started to make very good use of what they had learned. We expected that every dimension that had such an operation would have it totally destroyed. The best solutions were quick and highly effective, so the delay in solving the Problem in every dimension was mostly in how long it took for each Waiting Mark to get enough information from his déjà vu's to decide to act. Often they delayed a while because there was no real reason not to make very sure that the apparent best strategy didn't have an unforeseen 'tail' to sting with.
Some of the Marks that'd made unlucky random choices of strategy, and whose families had been forced to flee home, were VERY thankful for the knowledge they'd received as they'd been forced to act on what they'd learned much faster than the rest of us. They'd eagerly awaited each of their déjà vu's, hoping that the next one would give them the information they wanted and sometimes desperately needed. They'd eventually learned what they'd needed to get the baddies' operation shut down.
Given how hairy the lives of some Risk-Taking Marks had got, it was possible that some of them and even their families had been killed, but we had no way of confirming that. We hoped and thought there wouldn't be many of them, as the Marks that'd been on the run had done pretty good jobs of keeping everyone out of the clutches of the evil CIA. Yes, it was a CIA operation. The CIA didn't believe in God, and didn't believe the bullshit the so-called Archangel Michael had spread, regardless of his impressive special effects. There was more than enough physical evidence to justify the CIA's suspicions, and they were determined to find out who Archangel Michael was, what the Guardian Angel was, how I was involved, and what we were up to. I can't say I blamed them, but I absolutely couldn't let them know the truth or my and my families' lives would immediate turn to shit, and soon after that, so would every civilization throughout the W-Dimension.
The usual way of shutting down the surveillance operation was in publicly exposing it in a way that implied that God would shortly be responding appropriately, and no one doubted what that meant to DC's habitability for the next few hundred years. The public in all those dimensions was SCREAMING! They were very quickly joined by EVERY politician who wanted to get any votes at all in their next election. They were also joined by very large numbers of CIA staff who were in abject fear of the Guardian Angel nuking DC or just killing everyone in the CIA, so they were trying to prove that neither was necessary by spewing out as much information as possible to prove that they were coming clean. The media took the information that dimension's Mark had initially provided, plus the new information that didn't so much leak as deluge, and they researched it further and produced even more details. I now knew, for example, the real names of every baddie in Corvallis - and a few that weren't in my dimension's Corvallis - with extensive information about their histories, personal lives, etc. So I was no longer worried about my surveillers. They were a nuisance, but I knew enough to shut them down whenever I wanted.
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Sunday, April 24, 2005 We'd gone to sleep about 11:30, and I woke at 4 o'clock, so about four and half hours sleep. My first problem was figuring out what to do for three or so hours. Get a snack obviously, but what to do after that? Schoolwork, I decided. My basic study plan had been to do my college work in the wee small hours and school stuff in the afternoons. Unfortunately (with tongue firmly in cheek, and elsewhere) Julia had recently been 'making' me have sex every afternoon....
Saturday, May 6, 2006 (Continued) I overflew home at a safely high altitude. As I'd hoped, there was a media circus besieging our gate, and several extra cars parked inside (lawyers, cops, CIA?). Watching closely to make sure no cameras pointed skyward, I descended enough to see that all of my extended family were inside. They were watching TV and talking a lot to a few suit-wearing men that I didn't recognize. My families didn't appear to be under any duress and Ron Fisher had no...
My Golden Summer with Blythe – Part 2 Josh’s childhood dream girl visits him in San Francisco. The Return of Blythe Coming from a small farming community, San Francisco proved to be everything Josh had ever imagined – and then some. He loved the freewheeling atmosphere – the friendliness – in short, he fell in love with the city by the Bay. Because of early retirements, and dedication to his work, he had advanced much quicker than he had ever expected. Arriving at his chic little Apartment...
Thursday, September 7, 2006 (Continued) I had to try to find out what the soldiers intended. My loved ones were all relatively safe in the tunnel, but if I waited for the action to start, by the time I understood what it was that they were doing it could be damned difficult for me to stop it. If the soldiers had lethal intentions - and they'd certainly come equipped for that! - the tunnel safety wouldn't last long. If I took my eyes off the soldiers to get involved in doing some research...
Saturday, June 2, 2007 (Continued) Saturday afternoon was saner for us, but not for some other people. TV showed us scenes at the main access routes into Corvallis, especially the highway bridges over the river. There were many hundreds of cars parked down the Corvallis-Lebanon Highway (the main road into Corvallis, to the east of the river) that had been prevented from getting any closer by the roadblocks. Consequently there were thousands of people yelling at the soldiers to demand that...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 The second battle in our war was going to be at Beale Air Force Base. According to the very helpful Wikipedia, it's the USAF's (US Air Force's) largest UAV operations center, almost certainly where the UAV that had taken out Mom and Dad's bedroom had been operated from and out of [half right, as it'd been operated from a Northrop Grumman's facility in LA]. The Government, media and public would recognize the appropriateness of the Guardian Angel's...
Wednesday November 21 to month end, 2007 (Continued) The US Government did not drop everything else and make it their number one priority to carry out the angel's orders, but the investigation did go ahead rapidly. The media wasn't given full access and information wasn't made public as fast as it could have been, but quite a lot of access was given and a good amount of information was reported, with more progress being usefully made behind the scenes. It didn't take long for the FBI to...
Saturday, July 14, to Saturday, August 11, 2007 In my following the Sondarm School thread from planning through to execution, I skipped over a few things that I'll attend to now. Carol's birthday was the first event. She didn't want a big bash because she's not really a gregarious person and there were plenty more parties coming up anyway, so she chose to have a small gathering with our families plus three of her best friends from school. It was a very nice evening, and Carol's being...
Thursday, May 26 to Sunday, June 12, 2005 I woke up feeling GOOD. It had been far too long since that had happened. I sent a sight blob to check a computer for the date and time: Thursday at 1am. I checked on Prof. The light was dim, but I could see that he appeared okay. His face had filled out and he looked his normal self. Hoping I wouldn't find them at this ridiculous time, I checked the waiting room. No loved ones, but yet another cop. When I'd cut my hand, my non-kiatsu healing...
Thursday, September 7 (Continued) to Saturday, September 30, 2006 The initial media coverage was excited, uninformed reporting of what they could see, but it only took the reporters a few minutes to learn the essential facts. All the Rangers and cops knew the situation, and they hadn't been too concerned about protecting the CIA. Somewhat the reverse, actually. So from breakfast time on the east coast, and through the nation's breakfasts as each time zone got up, America learned that,...
Saturday, June 9, 2007 (Continued) My families and I discussed our next steps. I suggested my plan, making Mom decidedly unhappy because she's not big on evil ideas. The rest of us worked on her. Prof told her, "They may be Government employees but they're no better than criminals, Felicity. Worse in some ways because they don't have a fear of prosecution to restrain them. They deliberately planned to avoid the local police because they know what they're doing is illegal. Mark...
Friday, April 27, 2007 (Continued) Vanessa parked in the tunnel, the parents went up to the Adults' House to get some cameras while I walked back down the tunnel to get the security guys. We could've summoned them by intercom because it used buried cable that never leaves our property and was therefore almost certainly untapped, but I didn't mind going for a short walk and it'd give me a chance to help ensure there wasn't a traitor in our midst by monitoring their reactions in...
Friday, April 27, 2007 I thought of one idea while I was making like a submarine up the river: the angel said he'd research the candidate list, so it made sense for him to be in the vicinity of the hilltop house and talking to me ("me" being Ron in this case. I juggle so many hats it's sometimes hard to keep them straight). If the Government questions me when I get home, I could say, "I met the angel. He said not to tell you anything." Ideally (fingers crossed), the Feds would be so...
Friday, September 1 to Thursday, September 7, 2006 It seemed natural to wait to start the OSU browsing early Monday morning, on September 4, and continue it every morning thereafter. That seemed more orderly and work-like. Plus we wanted the Government's decision makers to be available to act quickly rather than their being away for the weekend. If the Government did act, the quicker the better, because it'd make the coincidence of the browsing starting just before they inquired about Mark...
Thursday, May 12, 2005 (Continued) "Please give me a few seconds to prepare. I need to tie the hair that Diana so kindly donated into a knot." Diana and Claire giggled, with Mackenzie joining in with a small chuckle too. Plus small smiles from the parents. I made a small loop in one end of the hair, then wove the long end around and around the loop, pulling the loop a little smaller as I went, until I ran out of hair. Hair being somewhat stiff, the tension in the loop kept it in a loop...
Sunday, May 25 to Wednesday, June 18, 2008 On my next déjà vu, I gave my link partner an overview of my situation and discoveries, waited for him to calm down, told him I thought I could painlessly upgrade him to 352 minds, waited for him to calm down again, then I explained my "Second-Tier Helpers" idea in detail, including that he'd be letting himself in for some possibly risky work on my Voyage. I couched my description as being an invitation to him that he could refuse, but I knew he...
Friday, September 2 to Sunday, September 25, 2005 (Continued) I announced that we didn't have time for another group Cutie-Duckling date before school restarted. Although I had a lot of other things going on, such as the Target Game's coming to a head, there would've been time for another Cutie-Duckling group date if I'd wanted one, but I delayed it while I waited to see if there was any fallout from the last group grope. At the speed the Cutie-Ducklings were running ahead of my plans,...
Saturday, April 1 to Tuesday, April 25, 2006 I was now a white-faced version of Ronald Fisher, also known as "Bomber" to those friends he/I had left, because he'd thought it made him sound macho and cool. I was nineteen years old - one of my important criteria was for him to be old enough to legally ignore his parents - and a high-school graduate. The latter had surprised me, but he'd insisted that his parents had the paper to prove it. Judging by the widespread ignorance the gang...
Saturday, May 6, 2006 One of the advantages I hoped a small video camera had was in not appearing on radar, as I didn't want the Air Force to think San Francisco had fired a missile across the country at Washington DC. Its being detected would be particularly possible when I neared my destination, because the address I'd obtained for the Eclipse Project was VERY close to the White House. I kept my sight blob looking all around for trouble and I flew fairly low - about five hundred feet...
Thursday, June 7, 2007 Almost immediately after I crossed into America, when not diverting around the many missile silos there were, I was searching for the things I needed for my various contingency plans. I had several of those: Three different ways of flying away with my ill-gotten gains afterward: by Flying Sled, by taking over an Air Force plane, or by covertly flying immediately under an independent Air Force plane so our radar images merged. With the loot I was hoping to...
Early Summer Vacation, 2007 I also did a little TV watching while my families slept. The two fires had been VERY big news for a couple of hours, especially with the senior Bushes being missing for most of that time. That Washington DC wasn't a crater, but that the two Bush residences had been destroyed so thoroughly, gave people a great deal of hope that the angel had decided on a different approach from that specified in the "explode 2 W80s" email. That the President's parents had been...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 I woke and we all immediately thought, After a few seconds of celebrating that imminent event, we became aware that it was raining. Only dummies go running in the rain for fun, so all I had to do was let Donna know it was off, then I could snuggle back into my bed. #1:
Monday, June 11, to Friday, June 15, 2007 Exam week - blargh! Especially with as many exams as I had. On Monday afternoon, the House of Representatives announced that they were forming the "Special Committee on Resurrections". The plural "Resurrections" amused me, as trying to investigate any resurrection other than mine would be rather difficult, and mine wasn't going to be easy either. They wisely chose not to immediately subpoena anyone, instead telling the media that they would be...
Sunday, February 19, 2006 (Continued) For the moment, the ground floor looked ignorable, so I got back to the, "Cause Massive Destruction" task. I lowered myself back down to level 5, stopping there. I floated the clothes I wanted to me, getting dressed in them quickly, then fetched the wallet I was stealing as well as the loose cash I'd pilfered and stashed elsewhere. I left the security tag where it was for the moment, as I was going to be moving around too much for a while and didn't...
Thursday, April 5, 2007 (Continued) I was flying toward downtown LA's tallest skyscraper, the 1,017-foot Library Tower, intending to start a press conference on its helicopter pad. It was about fifteen miles from the pier to the CBD (Central Business District; a.k.a. downtown), and I was flying it at about eight hundred feet and 30 mph, to let people see me reasonably clearly and to give time for word to get out so I wouldn't have to hang around the CBD waiting for the news organizations...
Saturday, August 11, to Monday, August 13, 2007 Having described the "Nevaeh As An Angel" plan so thoroughly, I'll leave that aspect out of my description of the party. I'll describe other parts of the night, plus where Julia and I had added to the plan. Nevaeh hid just inside the mouth of the emergency tunnel for the best part of an hour, waiting until the party was going well. Boring for her, but Julia wanted her creation to have a grand entrance with maximum effect. Julia had told...
Monday, November 12, 2007 On Monday, it was time to take the surveillers down. "At last!" Paul exclaimed, when I told him very early in the morning what the angel wanted done, giving him time to get it prepared. It wasn't going to be anything fancy. There were really only two parts to the takedown, which would occur roughly simultaneously in the mid-morning. I'd wanted to get this over with early enough that I could see that it had worked before I left. If the Government persisted in...