“I took you on because I needed the credits. I don’t care who you are, who you’re running from, or anything else as long as you’ve been truthf...l about the credits for passage.” When Helen nodded slowly, he continued, “what I do need to know is if there is a possible person or persons following you. There is a three-day window for them to hit us before we hit the Arcturus Sector. From there we’re headed towards Oanus rather than Nero Prime. Without telling me what or who, is there a possible. She made coffee and had him at the table with us in seconds. So domestic. “What you have there, Miss Riley, is the contemporary equivalent of a bearer bond. You can’t get those in the US anymore. You can in some countries, but if you’re caught transporting them into the US, the government will confiscate it if you don’t declare it and tax it if you do. Detecting a few extra credit cards is much harder to do. There are a lot of men and a few women who have no difficulty withdrawing a few. I was just putting the finishing touches on mine, which had made me chuckle when it was handed out. It was, in effect, a simpler version of my computer dating program. I’d quickly whipped it up on the TRS-80 in PASCAL and was now typing up the punch cards. Stephie was working on a CS100 program in FORTRAN that performed a simple bubble sort. I finished just before 3:00pm and Stephie, with a bit of help from me, finished at 3:30pm.“Want to come back to my room and hang out for a bit?” she. “Sharifa!” cried Nicola and hugged her friend tightly. Gwenllian was taken a little aback at her daughter’s reaction but said nothing.“Welcome to Kobekistan Mrs. Price,”“Thank you, your...”“Sharifa, please,” interrupted Sharifa, “We only have a short drive and we’ll be out of these things. So sit back and enjoy the ride.”While Nicola and her friend chatted Gwenllian looked out of the window and observed life in Kobek city. There was the hustle and bustle she was used to in Cardiff. People.