" As she finished that statement, her left hand patted my right knee in a very friendly gesture."Where can I take you, Fran?" Uh... well, if you don't...mind taking me home, it's up here about four miles to Turrill Road and then to the left about another mile." I don't mind at all. Are you just getting off work?" Yeah," she replied. "I work at a fast food place about a mile back and this was my night to close up the place." Oh, so you must be in management." Well, yeah, I've got the title of. I just swiped a hand backover it to shuck some of the accumulated water as well as serve as myonly effort at styling. No sense in wasting any more time on it thanthat.Daily hygiene out of the way, I found myself a quick change of clothes,slightly rattier versions of the previous day's attire, grabbed myglasses, then plopped right down in front of my computer. That waswhere the day truly began. I had email to check, then the various siteupdates that weren't done in the middle of the night,. Then I drove home - carefully."Collette nodded."I'm sure you understand why we'd think differently," she said.It was Joy's turn to bob her head."Do you know the last time I had a drink?" she asked rhetorically. "Four weeks ago last night. It's been six weeks since I've done any sort of intoxicant. I haven't sneaked off campus in four weeks. I haven't even back-talked one of the instructors in a month. I'm trying, Mom. I know Stanford isn't a joke and I'll need to work."Collette sighed and. If not, they were sitting ducks for the Confederation fleet.Papoose was recalled, and a meeting of the team was held to discuss their options. After a lot of discussion, it was decided that they needed to know a lot more about the enemy ships and their capabilities. Susus ordered a flight of 4 ships to try to isolate one of the smaller enemy ships and disable it. If they could do that, Zeke and TenTen would board it to learn what they could.A flight of 4 ships was dispatched to intercept an.