With the first semester coming to a close, Jayne secured an early release on a Friday to go home and pack for a week home in Iowa with the folks. As s...e crossed the vacant campus streets on her way to her dorm room, a mysterious white van slowly pulled up behind her. When she turned around to acknowledge its presence in the street, she was grabbed by two masked black men and tossed into the van kicking and screaming.The tiny blonde still dressed in her school green and white schoolgirl outfit. At least if we're down on the surface we could spread out so that it would be harder for them to take us all out in one attack," suggested the Captain."We could combine some of the options here, couldn't we? I mean, we could consider option five — we could wait for other ships to arrive and in the meantime begin to repair the harvest ship while we're waiting. If we can get it repaired, we could then look for another planet with a larger force."The Captain looked thoughtful at that and then. That’s probably why she hasn’t been able to get away from him. It’s late in the afternoon but the heat is still searing outside. Steph looks out at the pool behind the house but has no urge to swim. Instead she wanders around looking at the boxes that contain her possessions. She sits down at the kitchen table and stares at the walls until she hears the doorbell ring. Startled, she leaps up and goes to answer the door. When she opens it she is greeted by two blondes. They look like typical. We slept in a tent as we camped out in his backyard. He lived about five blocks away from our house on the edge of town. There was a large expanse of second growth trees behind his house. It was where we could act as early American explorers and stake out our claims.It was late Saturday afternoon when Ryan’s mother came out and called to us. As we went up to her we could tell that she was worried. “Ryan, Lloyd, I just got a phone call, my mother had a severe stroke and then a heart attack, they.