I can't repeat that mistake, Vicki," Ty sighed as he swallowed more beer from his bottle.His bloodshot eyes indicated that booze was his only companio... whenever Trevor wasn't around. Well, her son hadn't even left yet, and Vicki suspected that he would switch from lager to hard liquor as soon as he was alone. At this rate, he would kill himself and deprive Trevor of his father. Whatever her feelings about Tyler, she owed their kid a better childhood than one without the man he worshiped as Dad.. I opened a notebook and got my pen. "What have you to tell me, young lady?"She took her position in front of me, her hands joined, her lashes lowered and her mouth pouting. "Nothing really... I was a little lazy on Sunday, so I skipped the church." Shame, on you. Is it an example to Rose? Two points. What else?" I burned your checkered shirt..." No big deal, I intended to throw it away anyway... But you should be more careful. One point. What else?" I scolded Rose too hard when she broke a dish. This might just be fun. ********************************* The girl was hot. And she handled her weapon like she’d been born with it in her hand. If she wanted to kill him, she could’ve done so when he turned his back to get the milk out the fridge. Now they were just talking, amazingly about anything and everything besides the reasons why they were both hiding in a safe-house. ‘No the .223 is better than the .338, it’s a common misconception, especially amongst men,’ she was so effortlessly. They showed a pair of green planets, with only rudimentary societies on Horn 4. There were large oceans and verdant forests.The 'after' pictures were taken by a pilotless drone ship; the only pilot was an AI. The planets were rocks, perhaps only half the size of the original. There was no life. No trees, no oceans, only deep gouges in the underlying rock, the planets' cores were exposed and everything was volcanic now. Only by looking at the surrounding stars in the background could you even.