Kat asked, “What’s everyone’s plans for the day then?”Joe asked Solara if she could do some work around the ranch, he wanted to convert the ot...er Gator and the tractor away from fuel and he had a bunch of other things that he wanted to talk to her about. T’Soona volunteered to help.Marta had never seen snow before and she wanted to go out running in it, so Laruun suggested running up to the high lake, where she could show her where they had crashed.Mark said he was going into the office and. She had expected to have to fight for Bob, and was ready to do so. "Are you okay?" I'm fine," said Margaret automatically. "I'm just a silly old woman sometimes." You're not old," said Julia, also automatically. Then, with shock, her eyes registered the sprinkling of silver strands mixed in with her mother's normal dark brown hair."And you're only silly once in a while, so far," said Hank, who realized, more than any of the others, that something important had happened. His attempt at levity. The oaf laughed and teetered on his chair as he discarded the now empty bottle. The thin man produced a knife from his pocket."I think I'll cut you anyway; you'll look good with a stripe across your face!" He lifted the weapon, cruelly teasing her with it as he chose where to cut her. It was now or never. He flew from the doorway and kicked the thin man's arm skyward; the knife spiralled into the air, dropped and bounced down a hole in the boards. His look of absolute rage made the thin man. The rate of change of signal strength was being recorded for later attempts to calculate velocities in hard space. Thrusters were stopped on U42 after an initial fifteen minute burn.Both UVAs recorded no detectable turbulence, stationary or when in motion; they both were detecting the boundary layer and this was used to keep U42 skimming along. U42 reported loss of Mountserrat's albedo (total radiation output of the planet).The signal strength was weakening and was nearly at the point of.