Miss Wen

is very happy! She loves the readings....they are about real things....important things.....and the Master is such a wonderful person, so calm, so understanding, so clever....she loves the Tuesday sessions, with others who are real....other young people who have questions.....and....and.....most of all....she thinks she loves Bobby! Of course her family or the Han Pure State would never approve....he is not Han at all. He is Mi-Wuk....a native american tribe....from California....but his eyes.....oh.....They walk through the mall holding hands....she doesn't care who sees them.....her heart is beating fast....she walks on air....he smiles at her, they turn aside into a small park pavilion, dimly lit this late in the evening...they sit on a bench....they lean close together....their lips almost meet.....and all the world shakes and shudders....a great groan moans through the whole hammership....all goes dark, they are thrown sideways as the ship-spin starts going haywire....somewhere there is an explosion....someone starts screaming.....a child cries "Mommy? MOMMY!"