She shook her head.“Then if you’ll give me a day or two, I will see what I can come up with. I can think of one house already that you might want ...o look at. Would you be free Thursday, by any chance?”I nodded.“Yes, as long as we were done before 4.”“Amazing. I’ll see what I can arrange for Thursday - maybe starting around 9:30?”“That’ll be great.”We stood and shook hands again, and then Jess and I headed back to the apartment. Kate had made lunch - just some soup, she said, but it was. Her mum gave her the usual line, " Santa is real because he's the spirit of Christmas ... The embodiment of giving and sharing and loving and caring." She had read that somewhere in the Readers' Digest at the dentists office just last month. But it cut no ice on a nine-year old's heart turned cold.Dad took an even more tactless tact with his, " Well, it was about time you faced reality anyway, dear. You'll be ten soon and have to act your age and not act like a baby anymore. I mean use your. Klenam, why did you give me a F?!" I said inocently, biting my lip and leaning towards him. "Uh ,well you didnt try, and your anwsers didnt make sense! For number 6 you put Metamorphic rocks are created by lmnopqrstuvwxyz!? I sighed, "Is there anything I can do for extra credit?" I asked pouting my lips. "Actually, there is one thing," he winked at me,"but its really nasty!". My heart started to pound, my body started to heat up. "I dont mind if its dirty." "Okay, good come here," He walked. We were limited by the top speed of the Atlas and that wasn’t all that fast, so we were only moving slowly so as not to be spread out when we encounter the pirates.And we quickly found three signals on our scanners. They looked like light mechs due to their speed and scan returns. Hacker got a sensor lock on one mech, a Commando COM-1B. Small but nasty with a Large Laser, SRM2 launcher and Medium Laser.Sulphur got a lock on another Commando, this time a COM-2D model armed with SRM4, SRM6 and.