She was gauging her audience. “Grandmother, we need to discuss our next mission. I think it would be best at least for the council to know what you�...�ve got planned.”Agnes still amused sighed. “Ok, now is a good time to start discussing it. For a long time, I have been considering the time that we waste. We go out, harvest the raw asteroids, and then refine them down. When we think we can make a profit, we bring it back to Mars. The time it takes to go out and then come back is wasted. We have. As always, he got lost in the words, pulled and threaded together by two people so different and pinned with affection. It never ceased to ease him. Every break and pause, every description of life.It reminded him of her.“Hi.”The seat across from him sighed with the drop of her body. His eyes fixated on the tattoos sleeving her arms. He used to think they were beautiful, that anything adorning her body would be gorgeous by default. Now he was sure they’d hidden her bruises well .She cleared her. .. “Do you, Steve, take this woman, Amrita, to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, to love, cherish, and protect, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, for rich or for poor, for as long as you both shall live?”Horace, serving as both officiator and father of the groom (he was an ordained minister in our new church), noticeably left out the whole “forsaking all others” nonsense.“I do,” Steve blushed a little as he married at such a relatively young. This guy had the real deal. Some of his stock should have been in a Korean War museum. I saw a little twist-type field dynamo for demolition work, an M5 medical kit and a couple little bitty bottles of tritium paint, used for painting your pistol and rifle iron sights. The shit's rare as hen's teeth. I also picked up a big spool of insulated twisted pair wire, some phosphate coated steel wire for traps, four second generation low light monocles, some spare batteries for them and a couple.