But, also, I felt more ... adult. I had ten or so years on most of the students and it showed. In classroom discussions, in demeanor, in attitude. I�...d been out in the world and most of them hadn’t.It was a minor thing, but I liked the fact that I was able to pay my final year’s tuition from the funds that Matt had left me. Vanessa said, “He’d have loved seeing you hang out your shingle.”Although this particular afternoon, law book face down on my chest, my body had decided to take a power nap.. The family and staff had gone out to the fields toharvest the ripe crop of coffee. Lorena and a fewmembers of the house staff had been the only ones toremain home. It had been a lovely morning and after themidday meal, Lorena had quietly hidden her self undersome staging in the large riding school. It had been dark under the staging and the poor girl,exhausted from the heat had lain down and fallenasleep. It was very quiet so there was nothing todisturb the slumbers of the weary. The hours had. He'd joined the war, cause he felt it was what he'd wanted to do, there'd been no one for him, alone most of his life it all seemed just to go that way. Now though he felt as if there were people, here he laughed yeah people, the A.I.'s seemed more alive to him than anyone he'd met in a long, long time. An hour later the 3 ships flashed back around his little ship, then just as suddenly the ship was in the hanger and Derrick was again on the bridge. "Status report," Derrick ordered. "I estimate. .."Everywhere we went people sniggered and pointed and I think I shrank at least 4 foot in height. I could almost see a huge fluorescent sign pointing at my school shoe clad feet, "Look here" it read in flashing colours.When we got home I was made to change into my new gymslip and hat, I was really humiliated, but my Mistress was not still satisfied and I was given an empty exercise book wherein I would be given homework in. She made me sit down at Her desk and cover that book with brown paper..