Lime waved at the soldier and got wet as Sunshine jostled the umbrella. Lime frowned and growled,"I ought to smack you one! You BIT me! Mom is going to go BALLISTIC. Don't you remember this summer at the pool?" Sunshine looked a little down. She said "Well...YOU BEAT SOMEONE UP!" Lime frowned and said,"You goofy dufus! Nobody picks on my little sister! You better have a better answer than, 'I dunno' when she asks you WHY? Don't you look like that at ME! Don't you start bawling...." Lime's communicator went off with a chiming sound. "DON'T say a word! Let me do all the talking. You're in trouble, and I'm trying to fix this." Lime hissed it out worriedly at her younger, one eyed sibling. Lime activated the little holo-globe on her wrist. Her mother, Rose appeared on the unfolding projector rings. "Stay at the bus-stop. I have sent friends to go escort you to the tube-train home." Lime smiled uncertainly and said,"Mom! I think I know where Snowflake went! I smelled cinnamon again just a minute ago, just like before she disappeared. The USCOMM trooper on top of the bus-shelter says she went off in the direction of the bakery about a kilometer away. We can be there in a couple of minutes! If she isn't there, I can call back and then came back here!" Rose finished sarcastically," ...with a fresh-baked cinnamon roll stuffed in your mouth?" Sunshine exclaimed, "If she gets a bun, I WANT A PIECE OF CHICKEN! The trooper guy human said there IS a chicken place right next to the bakery place setting. It's in IM-meh-mediate proxo-zimity!" Sunny nodded with undue emphasis on it, as Rose turned her eye at Sunshine. After a moment she responded drolly, "You WOULD be better off biting a piece of chicken-flesh, than your older SISTER'S ARM! Sunny, you are four years old and NOT be biting ANYONE, like some kind of wild animal! I detect Captain Tkarro and his wife is in IMMEDIATE PROXIMITY to your location. I applaud your use of big words, at the same time I am saddened by your biting of your sister. We''ll talk about this when you get home this afternoon!" Jin Tkarro skidded to halt next to them, as Sunny burst into tears. She quipped, "Nice to see you, too." Lime said to her politely," Thank you for taking time out your busy schedule to escort us home, Mrs Tkarro. Your husband is out of breath, it appears." Dokka Tkarro ran up, out of breath, also soaking wet. He coughed out, "We got here as soon as we could. Jin decided to double-time it over here." Lime told them where she thought Snowflake might have gone to. Jin strode over into sight of the USCOMM Trooper and yelled in her D.I voice,"TROOPER! Connect to the USCOMM web and locate the nearest trooper to that bakery you mentioned! ASK him if he saw the woman you said you saw! ON THE BOUNCE, CORPORAL!" From the bus-stop one of the men there gasped out, "Holy shit! That is Master-Sergeant Jin of the ESWAT ACADEMY! My brother is terrified of that woman. Looks like ESWAT and Fleet are in bed together!" Jin clamped a gaze on the man that made all around him shrink away. She yelled,"DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD TO THIS CONVERSATION, CIVILIAN?" The man snapped a salute and reflexively spouted,"SIR,NO SIR!" "If I had more time, I'd put your mouth on report. Since I don't...drop and give me twenty! Count 'em off! You DO NOT have any good sense,MISTER!" Dokka said quietly,"You must be in a good mood, you didn't beat him up." She tried not to smile as she shot him the woman's old expression of 'Shut the hell up!' The trooped standing guard on the Bus-stop roof exclaimed,"SIR! A trooper next to the construction yard reported the woman in question with out her clothes walking by the intersection of 12th street and Construction Row, one minute ago,SIR!" Dokka said to Jin, "Go find her, I'll manage the kids." Jin yelled to the trooper,"If he doesn't do 20, shoot him in the foot!" She sprinted off into the rain. --TO BE CONTINUED!--