Aval ennai kaama paarvaiyil paarthu kondu irunthaal, enal ondrum mudiya vilai.Mami en kanavan en idam sandai potu vitan endru mugathai paavamaaga vait...u konde sonaal. Appozhuthu naan aval arugil sendru ungaluku naan irukiren mami endru solli mamaiyai kati pidithen.Mami ennai oru vithamaaga paarthu sirithaal appozhuthu avalin ithazhil mutham koduthen, mami ennai paarthu nandraaga mutham kodu da endru sonnal.Iruvarum sirithu vazhinthu ithazhil mutham koduka aarambithom, proumaiyaaga maami. I had done some extensive time on the Peepers to learn the common tongue of Utopia, which the general population used to talk to other races. Wizard Kyle Vella and a guy called Andy Mac Ray had created a program that we could download to learn it. Barb and I had spent the weeks while waiting for our ship, doing precisely that.We then practised it on the trip out with the locals on-board. I had little trouble speaking to and understanding the people here, as long as they didn’t revert to their. After losing five hundred dollars in quarter slots, with a few hours to kill before the buffet opened, I went off wandering looking for some penny or nickel slots to kill the time. Just by chance I tripped over three squares of carpet that had been pulled up to get to the cables going to a bank of six slot machines."Oh shit man, I am so sorry. Maintenance was supposed to have this whole place roped off. If you hurt yourself I can get the manager. They will comp you a room for a few days and. How could it have happened? The medallion wasmissing.Mary. It had to be Mary.I got up and put on a pair of cargo pants and a shirt. My pants stillfit luckily, but differently. They rode a little lower and I felt likemy butt was sticking farther back then before. Maybe it was myimagination though. I went downstairs and saw mom and Mary already up.Mom was going to the store and dropping Mary off to cheer practice. Idecided that one way to tell if Mary had done it was to see if she'dchanged.