Do you think I should walk around, maybe shout through a doorway?”“One second...” He slowed down his run so he could talk more easily. “No. Ac...ually, I’d like to suggest we postpone the search for Party #4. Aggie, will you just keep jumping the A-1 code? I mean all the way back to carriage 28. Just keep calling out the carriage numbers. The order will be fabulously useful.”“Yeah? Okay, sure. This will take me sixty-eight minutes if I speed jump and do nothing else. I’ll stop of course if I see. She sighed and I could see she was toying with the idea of castigating us for eavesdropping, but on consideration she let it drop. Then she announced she was going to do some revision and disappeared to her room.“Well,” said Nicky, “Sally now knows the whole story.”“I wish I did,” I replied, and we went outside and did some gardening.Over tea (the meal not the drink), Lizzy spoke about her visit. We listened without comment but with evident interest. She told us that Sally seemed ‘happy enough’. There was enough flickering illumination from all the video screens to get around, and I quickly walked a final round, clearing food wrappers and other visible rubbish from the surfaces, completely ignoring the litter covered carpet for now.Happy that the necessary cleanup had been completed, I moved on to the real reason I was here. It was just a chance thing the first time, but now I engineered it as often as I could. I flicked off all the power from the central distribution board, except for. Maggie had been dragged off to bed by an older woman, who I assume was her mother, sometime earlier. Saul and I stay to help with the clean up. We work well together, easily in tune with one another. Breaking down benches and tables. Adding to the stacks. When we are close to done one of the women waves us off."Saul, Chronos, you two shouldn't be doing the work. You did your share yesterday, GO away and have some fun," she shoos us.Saul takes my hand and squeezes it. His eyes shine with.