The students would have a bit more room but would still not know where they were.Getting to and from the ship took some time because there was just on... portal. The two AIs found that one could just throw many students through the large surface and the other would just catch them on the other side.Empress Meslifzz of the Bintuu Empire was now seeing some of the first fruits of a combined effort to train their young. It was shown that my idea worked when the grubs and immature Bintuu were exposed. "Anna," Ace started. "Do you know what happened in that accident?" Um," I swallowed. "You collapsed at the wheel and...yeah..." Before that." His eyes were fierce and blazing authority. It was time to tell the truth.I didn't respond aloud, only with the lowering of my head and sudden guilty look splashing my face."Mi sol," Ace reached out and took both of my hands in his. "You saved my life. When you saw me go down, you tried to protect all of us. If you weren't sitting there, I don't think. “I should thank him for that, but I deleted his number after Andrea.” Fiona’s mouth curved in a satisfied smile. “Jenny’s got Amy’s number. Guess you should go talk to her, hmmm?” Oh. You clever little minx, he marveled inwardly.* When he knocked on Jen’s bedroom door, he got a grouchy “Come in” for his trouble, but she seemed to brighten when he entered the room.. “Hey,” he said awkwardly. “I figured I owe Greg some thanks for what he did for us. Fiona said you have Amy’s number…?” Apparently. This makes us into some second-class kind of people, don't you think?"Elise told her with a smile that she would have to adopt us into her family. "We shall then happily eat all leftovers together with you. And drink good riddance to silly Boards and their hordes of dehydrated pencil pushers."Chuckling, the young woman turned to get us a refill.Our supper was, at first, a rather genial affair. We avoided any topic which could be relevant to Karla's issues, had a glass of wine on the verandah,.