I helped her stand up, and Manaia followed us out to the parking lot. I looked up at the moon and took a deep, cleansing breath. The air smelled like ...moke. Over the last few days, they’d gotten the wildfires down to something manageable. The news said they hoped to have everything under control come the weekend if the winds didn’t pick up again.“What’s your plan for tomorrow? Please say we can sleep in,” Manaia almost begged.“Take the morning off. I want to get eight hours of sleep at a. One of my friends had graduated the year before and worked right off campus. I had called him up the day before and asked if he wanted to get lunch on Friday. He had said yes and that I would meet him outside of his building at noon. Since the buses for once were running early, I decided to get a local newspaper and sit on a bench near my friend’s office building and read until he came out. As most guys do, I flipped right to the sports page. After reading that the Pirates had lost their fifth. That means the first train will arrive in Eden two and a half hours from now and in New Pittsburgh four hours from now. Eden is the critical one. The Martians could conceivably have reinforcements start trickling into the Jutfield Gap positions by 2200." 2200? We won't be in position to attack by then." No," Wilde agreed. "The best we can hope for is to have everything we need unloaded by 2130 and to start our march at 2200. That's if we break all speed records but, fortunately, at the pace. They are all going to demand that we allow them to have doctors they hire examine you just like Doctor Halberstadt did. You don’t get a choice. Once they were charged, they have a right to know what evidence of abuse and rape we are bringing to court.“Are you going to be able to withstand all that?”I had a thought that might help make it all easier. “Can you ask Judge Marshall if she can make them all choose one doctor, so I only have to have one person putting their hands on and inside me?.
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