Nowadays the local trade just ain't enough to make it pay. What it needs is someone younger, someone with a bit of get up and go, that hasn't actually...got up and bloody gone already."I said it on an impulse, but even as I said it, it sounded right."How much are you asking, Pete?" Well, I don't rightly know," he said vaguely as he found the biggest fucking pothole on the whole of England, "I was going into town tomorrow to get me one of these here fancy solicitor things."The car wheezed to a. Volentin wanted the ships and the station.The plan called for Ferro to come aboard the station twenty minutes later and take on the role of interpreter in the command center. Speaking Galach wasn't the issue. It was making outsiders understand what Volentin was demanding and that task would require skill. Ferro was the only candidate for the job.They dodged the bulbous protrusions at the bottom of the facility and ran over the topside of the structures to gain some more momentum without having. "Please, Ineed my big sister to support me. I joined the cheer squad. I am a fullmember and got a uniform. My bow has my name on it. It's so cute. Theseearrings have the school name and a cheerleader on it. You push me to this,so why are you so suddenly shocked? I know it's hard on you. But this iswhat I want. So please, stop trying to get in the way. I am your littlesister, and I need your full support. Please help me!"Megan pulled Owen into a big hug. "I will, little sister. This is just. .well, staggered...forwhat must have been hours after that. The intellectual part of my brain,the one that had absorbed as much about medicine as it could with thelimited resources at my disposal, knew that I could very well have apunctured lung or a ruptured kidney, and that I needed to seek medicalattention as soon as possible. That could have easily been accomplishedby dialing nine-one-one from any number of payphones on the street. Mysurvival instincts, however, wouldn't allow for that and.