Heck I think you are very attractive. If I didn't do you think I would have this woody?" You mean your not mad at me for being so bold... staring and ...ll?" Hell no Gloria. Look! Come over here. Come sit next to me." I hit the intercom and told the driver to take us across town so we could have some time."Gloria crouched and spun to sit next to me. She was trembling with fear. SO I tried to put her at ease."Look dear. Don't be afraid. I think you are a very lovely woman and what ever you decide. We exchanged pleasantries; they like us, had assumed we were their neighbours in the other unit.As the light was fading fast we decided we would walk back together.During the conversation it was revealed that he was a clergyman and his wife was a lay minister at a small parish about six hours drive further west.The following morning we decided an exploration of escarpment would keep usoccupied for the day.We had been on the trail for an hour or so, when the vicar and his wife, Alice came into. I think it is a party at thehouse but we have to dress up." Really, that is so nice of Tom's parents. So what will your costumebe?" I was surprised how that one chance meeting at the mall had changedLuke. He was much more interested in his friends and seemed evenenthusiastic."I don't know, but Letty said she would think of something." Luke didn'tseem to care. Letty was in charge and he seemed happy about it."That's nice," I said. "Do you know what she is planning? Does she needmy help? Money?". All from Marta’s mouth. Tomas was lucky. His survival instincts led to him taking the next interstellar liner out of the system, only to jump ship at its next port of call, and losing himself in the Kamar system underground. His fellow travelers had not been so lucky. Three of them were arrested and sentenced to lives of hard labor in the weeks after the Ventok Massacre, as it became known. The fourth never was arrested, but that was because he died in an attempted holograv bombing attack of.