” A few moments later he added, “Command sent.”Trizalski said to Sarah’s Clan, “Based on events in Sol we know that the Durale have ships th...t appear to be very similar to ours. Their attacks here and other places have made it clear to us that they have a lot more of those ships than our Central Intelligence thought. As to those following us, they are ours. The Captain’s comments reminded me of the new protocol for entering a foreign or insecure System. A second group of ships enter the System. Espero que nuestros caminos vuelvan a cruzarse nuevamente.- dijo doña Mara al acompañarme a la puerta y me dio un beso de despedida.Salí del departamento un poco extrañado de lo que había ocurrido. De verdad que estas maduras tenían fetiches un tanto extraños. Me preguntaba cómo serían las demás, que clase de prácticas nuevas y extrañas tendrían.Antes de regresar a mi casa y dado que mi madre no se encontraba decidí ir a la tienda cercana por algo de comer. Al cortar camino por el patio trasero. Roseanne and Jason were handling the HR part of the training.Marcy, Jenny, Jason and I were at the courthouse at 8 to meet with our corporate lawyers before the 8:30 AM court opening. Marcy had run a printout of all payments to the Airport Authority just in case we needed to buy time.Our lawyers were going straight to a judge to seek dismissal of the subpoena for over-reaching and a variety of legal mumbo jumbo I did not understand.I was surprised to see several TV news crews there with all the. ‘Me either. But now I want to do it every night.’ I point my toes at the big dipper and then let my leg flop back into the grass’s coolness. ‘Ha ha, you said ‘do it’,’ he chuckles and pushes my shoulder. ‘You wish,’ I scoff and make it awkward. This is Ben beside me. Ben of the negligible wardrobe, too much cologne, high sharp laugh, twinkling eyes and adoration for all things Bruce Lee. Ben of years of late night dinners at Denny’s, road trips to places dictated by dice and maps, platonic.