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were in rows and lined out all along the extent of the carpeted room. The plush chairs, tables, lamps, and couches had been pushed aside or shoved up against the nearest walls. Sara saw him come in from the corner of the room and waved to him. He waved back and they traded smiles. She was thin and pretty with long dark hair and it was clear she was interested in him but Harold didn’t know what to think of it. They had kissed and she did seem nice but he didn’t know if he wanted to take the next step. Sara could sometimes be intolerable, pushing him to do things he didn’t want to do.
    “We don’t even know who we can trust most of the time. They have that weird light in their eyes but most of the time they look and act like us and I bet they have spies.”
    “We can’t let our fears control us. They were just as human as you or I at one time. Let’s not forget that they are not to blame for what has happened to them. That thing is to blame not them.” Seth argued, keeping his demeanor somber yet forthright.
    “I still think they have spies. They’re recruiting people all the time. Before you know it we will all be like them if something is not done.”
    A rousing cheer swept up from all around Jacob. More than half of the room seemed to be on his side. He had this way of speaking that was common yet incendiary. His thinning combed back hair, chisel hard face, and rock solid workman’s body gave him the appearance of honest labor, of honest talk. And though he wasn’t the type to be agreeable he was born to be a leader. Even the young ones in the crowd seemed drawn to his sense of needing to take action, but Harold didn’t like him. He knew that Jacob would never have placed himself at risk to help anyone against that thing. In his mind there was no room for weak individuals. If they gave in they must be destroyed. He thought Harold was foolish and stupid, as foolish and stupid as Seth who gained sympathy and support because of his blindness. Yet Seth was a born leader as well and unlike Jacob he was flush with a crop of wiry gray-black hair expanding outward from his head augmenting the shaded eyes and the friendly round face that sought to charm you at every turn. He stood a head taller than Jacob and his skin, unlike Jacob’s, was a burnt bronze.
    Seth had seemed to be expecting what Jacob would say so he didn’t let the cheers and calls to action bother him. He was even smiling as he lifted up his arms to ask for silence.
    “Something will be done but for now we need to concentrate on our food supply, our water. There are people who need our help.”
    “Everyone knows what needs to be done.” Jacob rallied; causing another round of cheering that seemed to gain in intensity.
    Rosa had raised her hand to the group and shouted in amidst the cheering, “I want to know where my husband is! He was supposed to be here for this meeting!”
    The cheering had slowly ended. It was met by confused stares and recriminations, muted conversations and eyes that darted in Rosa’s direction. Harold could see that Rosa was upset and nervous. She was a short, round, motherly type of woman who rarely got nervous. In fact she was normally friendly, outgoing, and always ready to see the good points in anyone. Something was bothering her, something she couldn’t comprehend by the way her brows furrowed and her eyes stood straight out. She didn’t care what the others were thinking. She wouldn’t even look around to hear what they were saying. She was concentrating on just that one thing: her husband, John. John was the silent type, introspective, shy, intelligent and he was much taller than Rosa, unusually thin, scrawny with long arms and legs. He wore these cheap nerdy glasses and told harmless jokes that embarrassed him. He was a neurobiologist before all occupations ceased to have meaning and came up with the theory that certain brains were less susceptible to the sun thing’s influence, yet he couldn’t explain