If you know the back seat of a 1967 Camaro at all, you know it isn’t the roomiest seat but with the front seats up, there was room enough for the tw... of us to climb in the back and be quite cozy.Once she was in, I handed her the tumbler. She asked if I had a blanket handy and I shook my head yes before walking back to the trunk and retrieving the blanket.I handed her the blanket then slid in pulling the driver’s side door closed causing the speaker to clang against the window. I felt like each. Tufts is an interesting planet. It has water, but it also has huge grasslands. Our mission was to burn the largest as a way to limit the amount of food the Sa'arm would have for the next year. If their population is as high as people think we expect they will be suffering from famine for a while. Unfortunately, even though we extended our mission and moved to a second continent there will be enough food that the Sa'arm will likely recover. They might not have much food for the current solar. ‘Christ on a cracker, what the hell happened to you Firebird?!’ Deke looked at Otis then the look of recognition on the face of the girl. Firebird Otis had called her, which seemed appropriate given her bird like physique and flaming red hair. The next thing he knew, he was in the powerful grip of one of Otis’s mitts. He looked down at a man who had been his best friend, and choked. There wasn’t much else for him to do, and he wouldn’t do it for longer if Otis didn’t stop squeezing his throat.. Gravity tubes took some getting used to. You dropped or rose at greater than the speed of free fall but the disk beneath your feet slowed your fall– or ascent– and stopped at the proper level. Actually, the tubes would function without the disks, but stepping into an open tube and dropping hundreds of meters, even for an experienced spacer, was a rather daunting task. It also took some finesse, when you arrived at your destination, to push yourself out of the tube with just your hands, so the.