You little smartass. Get in the car before you’re on permanent dish duty.”Ani made a cute evil laugh and jumped in the car. We drove a few blocks ...efore I finally noticed that Ani was suddenly quiet. “What are you thinking about?”She hesitated for a moment. “Nothing. I mean... I really want to stay at Uncle’s house again.”A flurry of images from last weekend spun around in my head. It wasn’t too bad compared to other times we’ve stayed the night with other relatives, I basically stayed in their. "I think I'm going to like you a lot." Ouch! What'd you do that for?" You asked me too, that's why."Okay, she told herself, play along, this has to be a dream, after all hubby will never believe this, and there is no such thing as Santa Claus."Why are you here?" You're joking right, you have no idea who I am or why I'm here?" No, I was just thinking I had too much rum in my eggnog tonight." Do you remember what you wished for on Christmas Eve? If not let me refresh your memory, I need something. But if it did marry, then they would learn much about it’s origins, they hoped.The cell was one of three found on a meteor. Three living but separate cells, organic, but with no typical DNA that they had been able to couple with anything on Earth. Whatever the cells were, they were not of this planet.They had tested one of the cells in the lab, done everything they could do in a lab environment, but had made no discoveries from it. It did seem impervious to heat and cold. They had exposed it to. I'm going to revolutionize the world." Britt, I'm going to need more if I'm going to see about getting money." He said.I reached in my bag and handed him an NDA. He looked at it and then signed it. I said, "Marshal, if I didn't trust you, I wouldn't be here. I need this to protect a trillion dollars." I started to lay out my plan and about fifteen minutes in, he stopped me. He said, "Britt, this is so simple and so huge that I can't believe it hasn't been done. How much do you need?" I would.