None of the rest, and there were at least another half dozen with their names on ballots, had a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting a single delega...e to the convention.The first primaries were in January, beginning with the Iowa caucuses on January 3. I will never understand how the whitest, most conservative, and most religious state in the nation got to choose who would be the candidates for national office. If you won in Iowa, or at least beat expectations, you got a major boost going into. Actually, the tubes would function without the disks, but stepping into an open tube and dropping hundreds of meters, even for an experienced spacer, was a rather daunting task. It also took some finesse, when you arrived at your destination, to push yourself out of the tube with just your hands, so the designers put disks in the tubes to provide a floor and give more of an impression of an elevator.Gravity tubes are very fast. Captain Humatha was stepping onto the bridge by the time Ensign. I was bare footed and so was he, a shiver ran through my body with his touch, I couldn't concentrate on the food any longer, all I could think of was Brad's foot touching mine, was this just a conincident or did he do it on purpose. I had to know, so I extended my foot towards his, I touched his foot, he moved it back, I was so embarrassed, I thought he was interested and I just made a fool of myself, then all of a sudden his foot moved back on top of mine, he lightly moved his foot on top of. Now that would have been embarrassing.”I took the parcel inside then went back out. Not wanting to brave the road again, I went to the bottom of the back garden and through the gate into the woods.“Shall I, or shall I not.” I thought. Then,“Well Noah obviously wants me to, but I’m on my own, what if I meet someone? But I met the postman like this a few minutes ago. Tell you what, I’ll only go a short way then come back.”My internal decision making over I started walking. It wasn’t long before I.