She needed to get up to the 4th floor and Mr. Peckerwood's office without being seen by anyone she knew from the secretarial pool. It would be too emb...rrassing explaining why she looked like a slut coming back to work after lunch. She just needed to get to the elevator and get headed upstairs and she would be okay. The secretarial pool was on the second floor so once she was passed that she would be relatively safe. She got into the building without a hitch and stood waiting very impatiently. “But I’m glad that, as always, we have an understanding.”“Ah said it before. Yeh cannae play with broken toys.” Angus finished rinsing himself off and grabbed his own towel, stepping out of the shower to dry himself.“You did say that.” Tegan mused. “Anyway, can I offer you any post-travel stress relief?”“After dinner. I brought some chinese.” Angus said as he wrapped his towel around his waist. ----- They sat down to dinner as Sam and Brandon were dispersing the food from the various takeout. It will be 20 clock cycles or so before the propulsion pod is replaced," said Jamie of Kathryn's Clan.Violetta added, "Structural repairs are in progress and will take about the same length of time to fix. Our assessment is that many of these wouldn't have occurred if all the internal structure had been in place."They then reviewed the status of each ship, current intelligence assessments and general family issues. As they finished up Kathryn said, "Currently we are projecting to be operational. He started living with us,mom used to take good care of both of us. One day he told that his father would be coming here as he has some work in city.Mom and I said ok as our house was big.His father arrived, he was tall and strong. No one could say he was a farmer(he used to hire people to work on his land).We introduced each other. He thanked my mom for caring for rakesh and letting him stay for few days.Mom used to wear saree and sometimes salwar- kameez.Next day was sunday and mom was.