"I know it's hard to believe, but it seems like it's always that way here. I've never seen so many buses."We were soon home, though it was only a walk...p third floor garret. I didn't care a bit, because by that time Ron had told me excitedly that, yes, he would be home almost every night.We only stayed in that first apartment a month, then found a much nicer place. It wasn't the place that really mattered, though. It was that Ron and I were together. We did everything together. Every day he was. " Thank her for that information, Sir. I could have a use for them. McCock clear."McCock faced the crowd clustering around,"There have been no casualties from combat; however I did hear a rumour that an Aver broke his arm falling from his bunk." Probably young Caleb" snorted a grandmotherly women near the front of the crowd."Need any recruits, Commodore? You might say that recent events have changed some minds around the villages" rumbled a giant in the front of the crowd to the accompaniment. Finally, Sally had enough and decided that it was time for Sid to get some pleasure from this encounter. Looking up at the ceiling, she said, "Eyebolts in the four corner posts of the bed with ankle and wrist restraints attached to them."Sid looked at the corner posts and saw that Sally's request had miraculously appeared. It took Sally two minutes to get Alice secured to the bed with just enough slack to wiggle around a little. Looking at Sid, she said, "Have at her when she wakes up and don't. What no one at Alexander Industries told Jacquelyn Johnson was that in nine months the company planned to close her new plant and layoff all the employees including the plant manager. The personnel manager who rotated back to Earth from the New Pittsburgh ammunition plant a year earlier was now the Ammunition Division Personnel Manager. Jacquelyn had caused him no end of trouble, both personally and professionally during his stay on Mars. Now he had personally selected Jacquelyn for her new job.