Then they headed around the back of the hump until reaching the west coast. There were two other good-sized valleys to the west on their knee hump, bu... Lee and DT had liked this one, it was also the flatter of the three.‘You could build a good size city in this valley,’ thought Lee when she looked at it on the map. She didn’t know what attracted her the most to the valley, but she and DT both decided it had sufficient diversity to get good samples from.A large flattish outcrop of rock with low. I remember the AI asking what motivated me to try to help Bernice and what my concerns were over the fate of Annie and the kids, but I couldn't answer; I guess the AI picked the answers out of my head. Then the lights went out momentarily and the nurse was hanging over me through the open tube cover. "Wake up, Sir!" Sir?" the AI said -- in my head, not via my collar. "Huh. Yeah, I guess..." In the first place, what was I going to do? Hitch a ride back to Earth? In the second, there was Annie. You tell me now who told you that name!" I just can't recall if it was a canary or a lighting bug who told me." Well that got me going with Shana and Jana. The poor waitress looked at me and no doubt wondered who had dropped the hornet's nest at our table.I got up and walked over to the waitress. "Do you have our bill?" She handed it to me; I looked it over and handed it back to her with my credit card. She scurried off to process the credit card while I headed to the rest room.The bill and my. I had made the thousand kilometer trek through the wilderness alone with only a knife. I had also completed the required test of clan law. This was the last test before I became a warrior.I slid to the side and yanked the kick back while turning. I let the leg go as I kicked out and back. The drone folded and grabbed my foot but I was already jumping and spinning while bringing my other foot around. The first crashed to the ground as I rolled and struck the second in the head with my other.