My brother, convinced that it was me that had made the picture special, begged me to let him take more photos of me. He even offered to let me keep th... whole $1,000 prize the paper had given him for winning the contest. He told me I could use the pictures as a portfolio because, he said, I should really try to get into modeling.Well, that was sweet of him to say. I had always been the practical girl, studying things like economics and finance, and I have to admit it was flattering the way he. Because of the sleeping boys, we said our goodbyes with hugs and kisses at home.At Morton I picked out an extra armored vest for our guest along with hardware for Bob and drove to the plane. The crew was already loading their things in the plane and helped us put our things in the plane. I carried my portable office to the front where the seating was set up. The fuel truck was topping off the tanks. I stopped at the restaurant to pick up the subs I had ordered for the flight and a couple of the. Most of it was because I decided to lead the party. Many, had things to say but it fell on deaf ears... I had made up my mind. I felt myself to be the best qualified. For one thing the only guns other then mine were old flintlocks. For that reason alone I felt my chances to be better than anyone else..Marlu was upset when I told her she was needed in Fox Wood. Oeiip informed me that He and Tiiup could communicate from that distance. He added that he was not absolutely sure but thought they. If you knew the codes it would also unlock the vault. The wall slid open and a small room was revealed. The room was temperature controlled to keep the heat from my servers at bay. I had my own network and web servers so I didn’t have to use an ISP for connection to the Internet. The room was small, if only because one wall was lined with servers. It took a lot of power, but kept me independent from third parties.Before I left last night, I wired Simon’s laptop into the system behind a firewall.