I felt the ‘urge’ to walk about the ship: ‘You have the bridge, number one,’ I said. ‘I have the bridge, aye Sir,’ said the navigator.  ...Ch. 2 I had made my way to the second deck medical section. Sitting at his post was Needles Anderson was going over his medical stores inventory. I stood by his hatch watching him professionally perform his mundane task. If the rest of the crew was bored doing their exacting routines this man should be in a coma. He really had no other function onboard but the. I had never kissed anyone like that before, making a wordless pledge that she was my girlfriend. Patti trembled and there were tears in her eyes. After I kissed her a second time those tears ran down her cheeks. I held her tight as she blotted her tears against my shirt. "We don't talk enough." I said. "You should have told me." "I was afraid to. I thought it might ruin everything." she said. For a couple of weeks we did what we always did but when we were in the garage we kissed at least once. Landing bays for emergency services made for a perfect base of operation because, like an outreach centre, they had a map of the entire world they were orbiting on the wall; Cricket highlighted the countries they were helping and overlaying numbers of capsules delivered versus the number of infections detected for each country.They estimated there were over a billion people currently infected with the virus. Even with the drastically increased capsule production, it was still going to take a. ’ James said. The genie snapped her fingers and right there in front of his eyes was his car exactly as it was before the accident. James stood there, slightly in shock. Even though the flashlight had almost been enough to convince before, he now had no doubts that this was the genuine article. He pulled out the keys he was still carrying around out of habit, and got in the car. ‘Do you want shotgun?’ he said calling out to the genie that was still standing in the street. ‘If it pleases you,.