I left Anne and the guys to tidy the houseboat up and get ready for leaving the following morning while I nipped up to the Berri Hotel and got on the ...hone, I phoned my secretary as well only to wish I hadn't a meeting in Sydney the following week had been moved up three days so I had two days left after today. By the time I got back on board I'd booked rooms at the Renmark Hotel for us for one night and organised a light plane to take Anne and myself back to Adelaide. On board Anne and the. ." Got it!"The call came from Nora, down in front of the Navigation Sphere. A split second later the holographic image that dominated the bridge showed the dot that had just come within range, and its projected course. Lessa let go of the chair, and stepped around to stand next to Kine."Get ready," she whispered...Sean stood and floated through the door into the main shuttle compartment."Suit up!"The eight teens quickly grabbed their helmets, fitting them in place and checking the seals. The. ”“My God! I don’t have a chance.”She left me in the kitchen and walked to our room and closed the door.“Kendi?”“Yes?” Her voice was muffled because of the door.“May I come in?”“No.”Knowing that I had just ripped her heart out, I went back to the dining room and pulled out my laptop and opened the book I was reading. I read and ran thoughts through my head. Staying would hurt her. Leaving would hurt her and break my promise to watch over her. I closed my laptop after almost two hours and went to. Where strangers who didn’t know any better went to get robbed and swindled, conned, kidnapped, suckered, hoodwinked and honey-trapped. The ones who made it out alive, that is.Also, healed, courtesy of Xi, healer and herbalist. Except almost all of her business was with the locals, since there was no sign to demark her healers squat from any other denizen or predators domain unless the blood drench stained linen from her psychic surgery was hanging to dry from the balcony. A stranger to the.