“There where wars fought for every boundary. And the country became divided and secular. Those who lived outside the lines soon found themselves sick with radiation poisoning and all other forms of chemical and biological ailments. Madness ran the streets and the sick began to storm the camps of the healthy and this is what began the Hybreed War.”

“In order to gain entrance into New San Diego I had to join the Army and mother had to take her resources and tend to what was known as Mount Carmel. And so it went. Mother went her way and I went mine. It was the only way we could both live.”

“As you can imagine I was treated as royalty in New San Diego. As you can imagine I soon found myself with nothing to do but train and pray that I wouldn’t die out there in the nothing. I soon found myself hopelessly infatuated with Carmen who was assigned to teach me. She was in my unit and so was Natasha who Carmen was involved with….”

‘You mean Tasha right?”

“Well yes how do you know Natasha?”

“Carmen killed her…She was going to kill me. She was jealous of Carmen’s feelings toward me.”

“You don’t say Carmen killed her one true love for you………and Natasha finally lost her reason did she? You know she wouldn’t let anyone near Carmen. Whatever bond they had went beyond my knowledge.”

Those words stung me. Tasha was Carmen’s one true love. It was all making me very ill. I could hear my blood roaring in my head. It replaced fear with nightmare fear. It was like waking and finding everything you knew to be a lie. Carmen didn’t love Helena. Or she loved her so much she sent her away or she loved only Tasha. My breathing was getting way too fast, my head with the blood dull roaring in my skull; I thought I was going to pass out. I should have taken Helena’s bitterness into consideration. She only felt bitterness and rejection for Carmen. But then on the other had she saw them with her own eyes.