How do we get back to Tol'Homeras? I'm not so sure your star maps are accurate any more. I mean in over three thousand years the stars and systems hav... moved away from each other and we might not be able to go back there."Atlanta and Ikilla thought it over. He is right. When I saw the night sky again a few days ago it was different from when we landed. We have to get back there though! Despair crossed their faces.Aocles smiled. It disarmed all of them. "I know I can go back. My problem is. The man looked like he had aged a hundred years in the past few months. His hair had turned gray, there were wrinkles around his eyes and on his brow, and he had lost weight.She said, “Colonel Stewart. Are you okay?”“I’m fine.”“You don’t look fine.”“I’m just having trouble sleeping,” he said.“Why?”He just shook his head in answer. No one needed to know the nightmares that kept him from sleeping at night.Betsy said, “You don’t look happy.”“I’m happy enough,” he replied.“I think someone needs to. "That gave me another impossible concept to chew on."Jennifer, I have to be serious for a moment or two. I alluded earlier to fully informed consent. That is a strict and serious requirement that is our obligation to you. It would be a huge institutional embarrassment if we signed a girl up who subsequently learned something about us that made her uncomfortable. If you decide to say 'yes, ' I cannot accept it until I have met that requirement." Wow!" That's it for serious, at least for now. I. I did everything that was expected of me,” she said.“It is a yes or no question. Don’t make me get the crop. Do you feel that what you did this week entitles you to pass, or do you need to repeat the week?” he asked.“Yes, master, I feel I should pass this week,” my sister answered him promptly.“What lessons do you feel you learned?” he asked.My sister rambled about humility, patience, obedience, and service. It was mostly what she thought my father wanted to hear. It was things she had been.