. to a water level that I could either seal the broken seacocks or replace them.Except, the boat was now in the hands of the insurers. I could remove ...ersonal property but the boat belonged to them.Ring RingRing Ring“Every Country, how may I direct your call?” She had a pleasant voice.“I don’t know,” I said, “What do you have?”“Well. If we knew your need we might have the solution.”“My boat sunk. Provable sabotage. Police reports.”“You want Claims.”“Already did that,” I said, “Paid out. As part of their exploration, if they find a planet that may in the future be able to support their kind, they would seed the planets with micro-organisms, plants and basic animals to get it started.If the planet were further along its evolutionary chain and had an established environment, they would add higher order plants and animals that would provide food for them when they came back. Special incubation tanks had been built aboard their ships for this purpose.During my mother’s travels, she. "No, but imagine if I had done as I planned and bought the ring, had my place up for sale with a seller lined up, and THEN she did that? I hadn't turned every stone over, and NEITHER HAD SHE!" I said making sure she knew that it might be HER that would get cold feet or have second thoughts."Oh, I see your point now. I can't imagine anything would happen like that, though." Allie! Neither did she. Had I proposed a week earlier, she would have accepted, she TOLD me that. But she got this idea in. The problem with option two was the language barrier again. But she was sure in a pinch she could get the message pretty well across.Then there was option three. Of her choices, option three had the dual distinction of being the most desirable and yet the most dangerous. Since she had already obviously strayed from the safe path she had followed all her life, even if she couldn't remember it, she could make the best of it.Later on, when she was thinking a lot more clearly, Estelle would be.