“Unknown. I’ve requested Athena to attend.”“And here I am,” she announced, giving the impression she’d always been here, we’d just overl...oked her.“Some of the Higher Power abilities returning?” Roxanne asked with a chuckle.“Yes, Roxanne,” she replied, giving Roxanne a hug. “Theurgist is Archimandrite Karkol, one of my followers. Would you care to meet him?”“Why not,” Roxanne shrugged.“He’s meeting the Seeker and getting an update, including what actually happened when you sprung those ambushes. The overtime pay hardly seemed worth crawling through miles of ventilation shafts and cleaning up lizard shit, but it needed to get done. The station was like a living ecosystem, so large and with so many interdependencies that when one system was affected, it usually caused a cascade of problems. The air filtration system circulated throughout the Pinwheel and if it wasn’t properly maintained then contaminants could spread all over the place. Airborne viruses, foreign plant spores, molds and. She would like to have been able to say that it was her worst nightmare, but even that paled compared to the reality that surrounded her.It seemed like a lifetime ago, yet it had only been a day since she’d been part of a landing party that had beamed down to the planet Halkan. The mission had been simple enough; negotiate with the ruling council for rights to their dilithium crystals. A violent magnetic storm that was developing in the region had caused a break in the negotiations so that the. I can feel the weight gain just inhaling that lovely aroma,” she complimented.“It’s your favourite, my one pot wonder. I’m glad you were only gone three months this time. Six months are far too long without seeing my baby girl.”“Baby girl, Mom I’m thirty-one now, and the older of my two brothers. Besides, we always chat on Seeme every week,” she replied, sneaking a freshly made cookie.“Your younger brothers are both married and with Connor and Eve are expecting a baby, you’re going to be an.