”Suspecting Mark was going to say that, Adam pulled up a miniature star chart and showed the route back toward Earth. A little more than 3 days ligh... travel away was a planet named Neptune, but not the Neptune from Earth’s Solar System. It was a small ocean planet with lots of islands scattered all over it. It was the home planet of the Aquarens, or merpeople, and one of the most popular vacation spots in the entire Federation.“Sure we could swing by there, it doesn’t look too far out of the. Then tenderly I dried her, but she felt dirty still and it was an hour and more of splashing and frolicking before she felt clean and donned a new smock and sat with me as I combed her hair."I shall take you home," I said, "Your father will be concerned." Liar, he sold me for a shilling," she complainedI was nonplussed, I considered a lodging house but when questions were asked we were ejected so finally we booked into the Trentham Hotel, as master and servant, and as was the practice I paid. The political competition between the French and the English European powers culminated in the French and Indian Wars which were actually a conflict between England and France for control over the territory claimed by both in the New World. Both European countries saw the advantage of securing allies in the American Indian Tribes that were native to the areas in contention and they secured their allegiance with the use of trading goods and promises of loot and slaves when they had defeated the. We waited. Our reinforcements arrived and Poppa set up ambush points north of our prior points where our shooters would have clear fields of fire. There would be no warnings and no chance for the Triple-A's to do anything but win, run, surrender, or die. I don't know if others realized it, but this was going to be the place and time for a chapter in our future to be decided.The day went by and our observers on US 41 saw a Humvee coming down and stopping to look. These folks were cautious. We.