..what ya cooking?" he asked, shifting on the sofa again. "I thought I told you," his mother answered in English. "Rice and curry." Her English was q...ite fluent with only the slightest accent. "You probably did tell me, Mom," he replied, "but I'm in university so the only thing that stays in my head is homework-related." Mala laughed in her sweet voice. Wiping her forehead again, she shook a finger at Vick and said, "Naughty boy!" Mother and son both laughed. "And where are your sisters?" . Wincing, she straightened up, and the pain subsided. Samuel looked at his mom and asked, "Are you okay, mommy?" Yes, I just had a little tummy ache." She said trying to sound normal. This was the third attack this week. She decided it was time to tell Dave. She got the boys off to preschool and school.Walking back into the house it hit again. It hit hard. Grabbing her abdomen she screamed, "Dave!" then collapsed on the floor unconscious.Dave ran into the kitchen seeing Nancy on the floor, he. Short so they could bring their personal files up to date.With the repairs to the damaged dorm completed and the contractor back to construction on the final new dorm I was back to weekly progress meetings with Mr. Bozman. That meeting took the rest of the morning.After lunch Mrs. Short and Mr. Jackson stopped in and asked if I knew where Sly and Janice were; both were absent from their morning classes."Yes, they are attending a DHS meeting in Washington at the request of the regional. The two aliens walked out, having put on some of their own clothing, and sat side by side in the two chairs. They understood the significance of the chairs and their placement at least."I hope your translator is going to be sufficient," he said to Ship."We can assume we will have errors in translation, but the video data we found has given us more than enough data for the translation routines to have a basic offering." We'll see," Dar muttered, and activated the hatch. He stepped into the hold.