The items in those vehicles were worth more than their weight in gold. They were the items that would jump start his new civilization, his new nation,...and move their technology almost 425 years ahead in less than one lifetime. All of this did not even begin to take into consideration the metal and equipment in the crashed bomber nearby. My God, they had radio, radar, and ECM (not that they would need that for a spell). There were servos and syncro's, there was hydrostatic drive pumps, hydraulic. " I don't know how," Connie told her."Move over," Emily told her, "I'll drive."Emily crowded Connie over and started the truck engine. She slammed it into drive and took off across town at an angle to the way the robbers had gone. "They went that way," Connie told her and pointer due west."Yeah, but to get back up on the Interstate they have to head back north toward Knob Hill. We'll take a short cut." She steered down the street, through someone's yard, down an alley and on toward the open. To see the first of the two. She also let him know that one of the homes was still occupied and, therefore furnished, while the other was empty. Bruce responded by thanking her and saying that he would meet her at that time and that he was very much excited at the prospects because he loved both homes. Karen always dresses up nicely to show homes to her clients and this Saturday was no different. She put on her nice grey slacks that hug her ass and show the nice slant from her belly down to her. After a minute or so the sound of a motor engine drifts fromthe top of the valley. Someone is heading for an evening at one of thevillage pubs, or perhaps a chat and a few games of cards at a friend's,heedless of the peril lurking in the house they're shortly to pass.Long may their happy ignorance continue.Hilary's voice brings this all too brief spell of solitude to an end."It is cold, Ruth Pattison. You should come inside." "I'll be okay," I assure her, though the jacket wasn't designed to.