" Yes, I do!" Priscilla bubbled. Her mind was on the golden pony andnothing else."While we're gone, you can take Beauty out for another ride if youlik...," Ellen suggested.At the mention of Beauty, Priscilla's cheeks burned. "Oh no, I thinkI'll just walk around and explore on my own," she lied.Ben pushed himself from the table. "Good. You don't want to spend allyour time with the pony. There's a lot to see here in the country."Ben's eyes shifted to his wife. "Ellen, I'll go get the pickup.". That turned out to be more problematical than at first thought, thus the research station, where animals can be observed and more in-depth studies made.Our man, Hubert, has been suggested as a likely candidate for the job of caring for the animals in captivity. The background story is that he always wanted to be a zoo keeper, and this is very like that post. If he has the talents, we could perhaps use him."Before we get to the interview stage, please check our database for any other possible. They had done some more exploring and found several not-quite-so-large caverns that were reachable from the main living space. Doug decided to commandeer one of these to use as a storage chamber for the iron, copper, and tin that they were bringing in. He wanted to gather as much of each one as he could before the cold weather hit. Every once in a while, Doug cursed the fact that he had no idea when the asteroid impact was going to happen, so he had to operate as if it was going to happen. ..” Ambrose stopped as he felt a rather large round shape deeper in the container. Yanking it out Skylos’s eyes went large as he opened the largest chamber.“Careful sire if this works it might bring everything halfway back up.” Skylos said as Ambrose very slowly began to place the rather large piece. “A little more sire.” Skylos had a strange looking pair of glasses out as he started to direct Ambrose to slowly shift the piece ‘til he was sure it was as close to perfect as he could.