group huddle 2

"LILLY!" Crystal squealed as she kubeba huged her little sister. Lilly was in so much shock, she couldn't move. "Skipper.....why is she here? In the HQ. HUGGING ME!?" Lilly asked in a testy voice. "Well....while I was conversing with your sister earlier, she told me she was already on her way, and had nowhere else to go. So I told her she could stay here until we could contact your mother." Skipper replied, trying to make it sound like 'no big deal'. " I--don't--want her here!" Lilly protested, trying to wiggle herself free from Crystal's grasp. Crystal let Lilly go, and she fell to the floor....

Just as I jumped into my room, I heard alarms begin to ring throughout the compound. I grinned to myself. Private and Kowalski must have finished letting everybody go. I glanced at the surprised faces looking at me. "Who wants to get out?"

Everybody yelled with joy. As I unlocked the different cages, I came to one with a squirrel. "You must be Fred," I said.

He looked at me. "Is the hotel stay over?"

I stared at him. He continued. "The room was okay, but the chakula is horrible. They don't even have acorns!"

I shook my head and decided to play along for the sake of everybody else. "We're having a...