" He sighed. "Shawna Vickers had an accident, about a week ago. She fell down a flight of stairs in her home. Warren, this was bad. She fractured her ...elvis, broke her leg in three places, broke her ankle, shattered her kneecap, tore all kinds of ligaments. They almost amputated her leg. If she's really lucky, she might walk normally someday--but skating's pretty much out of the question. Her career's over." Oh SHIT!" Warren gasped. "Poor Shawna."Warren got off the phone and told Sophie what. She drifted free of the seat, and immediately bumped against something solid. Planting her good hand, she turned her entire body toward the light source. She was on the flag bridge deck, or at least what was left of it. A few emergency lights glowed from the remains of the bulkheads, while debris drifted everywhere around her. She fumbled for the light mounted on her chest pack, and turned it on. The light cast stark shadows, and a quick check of her environmental display confirmed the. We also acquired the debt that goes with all those things. Candace was a stay at home mom and it fell to me to see to it that the money for the mortgage, car payments, furniture payments, money for braces for the kids, etc., etc., kept coming in. It didn't matter how much I made, it was never enough. Candace, while not necessarily greedy, never the less had an endless list of things we just had to have; tuition fund for the kids so they could go to college, a patio off the back of the house so. Artur said not as long as they could get to food and water. As for chickens and turkeys, they could include a few thousand fertilized eggs in the cargo and that would resolve the problem. The AI thought they could start relocating the cattle a few hundred at a time, and there were pastures available that would allow the animals to eat and drink. Artur handed the AI a list of animals he wanted, the gender and the quantity. The AI turned to Trina and told her they would have the animals moved in.