Phoebe sent along a pattern for the artificial rubber that John has been working on. While I'm not absolutely sure that it will be of great importance... I can say that I instructed the replicator and AI on this ship to note the original discoverer and to credit you as John's guardian with the discovery.I've been experimenting with adding it to the 'armor' I'm working on and let me say that it looks like it is going to be the breakthrough compound to making pressure suits from spun carbon. Professor Milford welcomed me in, looking much the same as she always did, except that today her nylons were black, and this was the first time I’d seen her wear a dress, a patterned turquoise affair.She led me through a hallway lined with various prints, and what looked like fairly expensive decorative items on small tables. I imagined they were old, possibly antique. Where I came from, we hardly had a hallway, far less antiques. I was lead through a doorway, into a well-lit space, this one. "Everything's fine," Michelle said, coming to my rescue."Well, from my vantage point things seemed a little confrontational. Doyou ladies have something you want to talk out?"I looked at Michelle with my eyes narrowed. She glanced at me, then backat Mr. Armbruster. "We kinda do, and we kinda are." Where were you running off to?" Mr. Armbruster asked Dallas, and Irealized he didn't know any of our names. Michelle and I shared a littleconspiratorial glance, so I understood at once she knew. I still had to figure out what to do about Marks. The smart money said to leave him alone, but I hadn't been called smart since Mrs. Rutger's third grade class. I stashed three of the C notes in my room for a rainy day. I noticed it was already raining out, so I stashed the other C note in my shoe, just in case. It was the usual oatmeal and day old bread for breakfast, so I made short work of it and headed out. Before I could reach the door, the Ether pronounced another bit of.