Consolation

I stayed the night at the Preskin house. Do not let your thoughts wander too far on that thought, Amanda prepared me a nice bed on the couch. I just wanted to be there for her while we waited for news of how our government was going to deal with the ship.

The ship.

Up until last evening it had always been Eugene’s ship, but I suppose we subconsciously decided what was probably going to be done because from the time I arrived at the Preskin house, we only referred to it as the ship.

Regardless, there was not much sleeping to be done. We reminisced through some of the evening, we sobbed quietly through some, at many points we did both. Throughout, we had either CNN or MSNBC on the television, hoping for more news. It was not until about 5 AM that the various talking heads were relieved for an update from Greenland.

There were reports from some of the remote observing news helicopters that many of the animals that had fallen at the passing of the cloud were reviving. They seemed disoriented and uncoordinated, stumbling over themselves and their yet fallen comrades, but they were rising nonetheless.

At 6 AM Eastern time, the UN issued a statement that a scientific team was being assembled for an exploration of the island to study and test the animals. At that point I apologized to Amanda that I had to go to work as I would probably be called upon to advise on the situation with the ship. She understood and thanked me for keeping her company through the night. I went right home, showered, dressed and headed back out to work where I am now.

So far there has been no call. Oh...something is happening...I have to go...I will update again later.