California coast - it was one of two missing in space for over 2 years, the ship commanded by Colonel Taylor.She gasps and clutches at herself as he apologizes - and then she lightly dismisses the ""accident."" Rather than let him retrieve the chip, she pays him off with an equivalent amount of chips from her stack.I""m as liable o go to that Palmer dance as I am to eat a couple barrels of broken glass...Aw, let her get somebody else to take her.She ought to at least be able to get one fella I should think.She tries hard enough." After heart-felt begging, Alice""s mother cajoles her grumbling son Walter into taking Alice to the Palmer party, although she later blamefully ells her husband:And it""s a shame for a girl as pretty as Alice is o have to depend on her brother takin"" her out when she could have any man in town if she only had some money to buy some decent clothes."It looked like the battle was over - but then ground roops arrived and shot at Jean.Everyone evacuated or escaped as her destructive and raging Phoenix was unleashed, levitated into the air and disintegrated the entire area with a telekinetic storm.