Amy could figure Barry getting in trouble like that but not her mom. Her mother was pretty straight arrow. Well, something had happened and now Amy wa... stuck in the middle of it too.Amy hadn't really done anything against Karen at school except maybe snub her. There was a definite caste system at school and Karen had been placed with the geeks which were at or near the bottom. Amy wasn't at the top of the social ladder but close. One just didn't socialize with others below their caste without. The assignment was to assemble the weapons and fire them. Jackson had hers together and firing while Harris was still working on her breech mechanism.She seemed to be comfortable around demolition charges. Harris couldn’t understand why, but the instructor seemed to listen carefully to this young girl. The more it happened, the madder Harris became. It isn’t right, she thought. I’m an officer — a West Point graduate — and this high-school dropout is deliberately trying to make me look bad. She. ”“We soon reach Xanadu, right?”“Eventually Roy. Xanadu is our destination for this part of our journey. There is an express connection from Xanadu to Ulta Hub; but this is a space bus, Roy, There are three stops between Odenworld and Xanadu.” She pointed at a large pictogram floating near the ceiling. “The route, flight times and stops are displayed everywhere. I thought you knew.”“Good grief, how long is this trip going to last? First, there was this hurry. Saresii ship, Hyper Highways and all. He had no close relatives and no savings so it was pay as you go or pile up a large debt to pay for college.When his parent's died his father's Construction Company went bankrupt. All their savings and property was used to pay expenses from their auto accident. All Pete received from his father's side of the family was a small 80 acre piece of ground in the country. His grandparents left him the land when they died. There was no house on the land. There was a small older building a few pieces.