“Thank you, friends of Ncchsi. You made this home a happy one and yes, we can provide almost everything. We have a Matter Radio enabled GalNet termi...al.” There was a tone of pride in the Leedei’s voice.Roy had heard about this technology. It was among the newest developments. He knew the Institute on Green Hell had received one only recently. The technology allowed the transmission of actual matter over GalNet. It was limited to 1000 grams and the Matter Radio enabled Terminals, just like the. "This will not do!" I said. "Colmgil, find me what passes for a builder or woodworker in this camp and we will see whether we can make this place habitable. Who has been living here until now?" My Lord Duncan it was who had this house before you my Lord Scott. He and his womenfolk lived here."He left us to try and find a builder. I turned to Kirsty and could see that she too had her nose turned up at the sight and smell of the house. She helped me pull all of the hides and furs out onto the. Actually....” I continued “that’s a silly thing to say because I haven’t been on the ferry since last September!”I noticed out of the corner of my eye that she smiled at my last sentence, probably realising that I was just trying to keep the conversation going in an attempt to chat her up, which I was!“I travel on the ferry most days, I like to get the fresh air to wake me up before a days work.”“Good idea,” I said. “ Maybe I should do that too, or at least more often than once every six months. “Yes, we are ready,” Gracey responded.This time, I took the right position on the love seat, as that was the place of least focus from the couch, at least in its current position. Liya took the same chair, the middle position of us five, while Gracey sat to her left. Heather took the other love-seat place, while Rhee was the other bookend.As the Go5 settled, Sandy began.“As I have come to realize from painful recent experience and from the three people most important to me, I have been playing.