Editing Back Issue Bin - Arc 2 (section)

===issue # '''7''':2===
*  ''' "Homecomings part II" ''',  July 28, 2005.  
** ''PREVIEW'': Given time to regain their center's, find themselves in the struggle of these newfound abilities - in this newfound world... A melancholy is cast as the Survivors return home for the first time following 4 years of being "lost". For some the homecoming will be joyous, for many it can not be. To paraphrase a poem for this issue's theme...  '' "The winter here is cold and bitter, chilled to the bone. Haven't seen the sun for weeks. To long - to far from home. Feel like I'm sinking and claw for solid ground. Pulled down by the undertow. So it's better this way, having seen this place before. Where everything we say and do, hurts us all the more. Its just that we stayed away, too long. Pulled down by the undertow. Never thought I could feel so low. Oh darkness I feel like letting go. With all of my strength and all of my courage, come and lift me from this place... Full of grace. Full of grace." ''
** ''RECAP:''  The group split for their homecomings.  Mandy stays in DC not wishing to see her brothers and Ladder family for her personal demons, but is able to do some good stopping the robbery of a DC convenient store.  Arthur finds his best friend who happens to be his father and saves his life after giving him a heart attack.  Jack finds his mother and they pick up where they left off ending both passed out from the night of binge drinking.  Brian finds his life collapsed with his parents divorced and the family home sold.  He and his dad share words but not worlds...


* ''Game Called: August 4, 2005,  Rescheduled for Saturday.''