Unfortunately, from what I'd seen so far, this appeared to be endemic throughout their society."Suit yourself," I muttered, "I was only trying to help..."His attitude softened at my obvious chagrin. "Maybe we can try your suggestion with one field, provided we can get volunteers to help prepare the ground."I nodded in acceptance, feeling a little guilty at tarring him with the same brush as the backwards-looking diehards within the citadel."Tomorrow we need to start harvesting each field in. Ever since then Mark and I poured everything into our lone c***d. We wanted the very best for him. We wanted him to enjoy all the things his older s*ster was now missing out on. She was beautiful, smart, athletic, and popular. Our son was on that path as well, but we spoiled him every chance we had. He had the trediest clothes, and all the latest tech-gadgets.THE INCIDENTDespite all that we gave David he seemed to be distant, now that he was coming of age. I suppose that is normal for. Fully as many battles have been lost due to tired soldiers as have been lost due to under-trained soldiers. We must strike a balance. Sleeping is as important as the time in orbit. Major Connor. You’re up.”Caleb stood, faced the group, and said, “You are all going to be busy. While in orbit, you will be practicing combat tactics and docking procedures with resupply modules. You will also be repositioning some resupply modules. The alien ship is on a trajectory that approaches the dark side of. Anyway, I finish my call and introduce myself, saying I wish she'd called me to pick her up etc. She is a bit rude, pointing out that I'm black for instance, and just asks where her Mom is, so I say at work, and then she makes herself some food and retreats to her room. I get on with my work, only a tiny bit worried that I haven't made that good a first impression, but think - oh well, another moody teenager. When Bev got home she turned into a bright, polite, model young lady. Talking nicely,.