Watson and my daughter ELIZABETH is a junior at Kennedy as I think you are already aware of, now can you come to the point of this meeting I have a lo... of things to attend to tonight." She was seething ... he knew damned well what her husband did, everyone in town knew!He looked up and into her eyes. "To the point ... well, yes of course. Well you see Mrs. Grayville I've had a complaint from a parent ... a complaint it seems about you." That wasn't true of course but she couldn't possibly know. “You are currently tagged as a recruit for the Navy. The colony you are heading to needs fifty-six naval recruits to crew two new Patrician class ships,” the AI said.“There are only fifty-six people on this trip?” I asked.“Negative,” the AI replied. “The two Patricians are to be scouts and raiders for a new marine training base at Crucibleat. The other forty citizens on this journey are going to be part of the cadre handling the training and deployment of future marine battalions.”“Mark?”. Greene knew about the troubles at the McIntyre home. It was common knowledge around town that Billy's parents had troubles. Billy's father had gotten hurt several years ago working at the same lumbermill that Billy now worked at. A load of logs shifted and rolled off the logging truck and pinned him under them, crushing his legs and putting him in his wheelchair for the rest of his life.Billy's mother worked as a cocktail waitress at one of the local bars and was lucky to get that. There wasn't. “Hi mom, what's up? Something wrong with little Jeanette, or big Jeanette?” I asked.“No actually. They are both fine, but we were wondering if we could keep her overnight?” Christina asked.“We already discussed that, remember you offered that already and we said yes?” I asked.“Oh OK, no I don't remember that,” Christina replied.“I told you that you pain in the butt,” Big Jeanette said in the back round.Then John started kissing my feet.“Well that doesn't surprise me. Big Jeanette is a know it.