[ well, it sounds outrageous at first, but he can almost see some crazy way they might have ended up fighting the yeerks at some point. was rachel just from a future point of his own timeline? maybe one where she lost her memory and just didn't know that they totally hooked up. ] Riiiight. Okay. Well, the last thing I remember is that Tom just found out we found him out and was going to take us in and then you beat him up with a baseball bat, stole his ray gun, and tried to shoot down a spaceship.

[ man, that seemed like forever ago. it had seemed so unbelievably crazy at the time, but it has since been overshadowed by everything else in the past few months. describing life back on earth feels as strange now as describing the plot of a bad scifi channel movie would have been then. ]