Chapter 214

• Christina slid herself to an upright sitting position and yawned. "Is that the boys downstairs?" she asked. She was still getting used to the continual time of having the sudden added weight.
• "Yeah," Beth nodded, "but they want us to stay in here for now. They're shoring up our defenses," she said with a wan smile. To emphasize the point, the sounds of hammering and moving furniture from downstairs came in through the door. "I don't think that they'll be long," she added as she crawled up onto the bed with her friends.
• "What's wrong?" Christina asked, noting her friend's long face.