I need my booze, you better get someone else.’ Wesley told me. ‘Wesley, would you like helwp with your boozin’? Maybe I coulwd pay to get you dw...ed out, back on youwr feet. I coulwd be your clwient, your first clwient after you got well?’ I suggested. ‘Let me think on it Bill’ and he left. I saw Vickie the next morning and told her I’d need to speak to her when she could give me some time. The ladies at the shelter had her cleaning rooms, cooking and working real hard, to help pay her own way.. There were also numerous empty beer cans spread around. “You guys fall asleep outside last night?” There were several snorts and chuckles, along with at least one sheepish grin from Jeff.“So, have fun?” asked Christy.It felt like I was in the middle of two different conversations. Mom and Christy wanted to know all about my date, where we had gone and what we had done, and they wanted some very graphic details. Daddy and Jeff, on the other hand, and especially Daddy, wanted to know about Jerry,. Commander Jane Shepard and her crew were just as surprised as anyone. Shepard herself was more than a little embarrassed, but also more than a little relieved. Life, it seemed, would go on. In time, some of her crew moved on, while others elected to stay on as part of the Spectre's retinue. Though unintentional, eventually her crew was entirely female, with Joker being the last to depart, returning to active service with the Alliance military. An upgraded EDI now piloted the ship in a synthetic. His ship was not supplied with enough equipment for himself and the infants to remain hidden.The plan called for the population to accept the babies as their own. When they grew up, they would be introduced, one at a time, to Trat and the command module. Their people would be reborn as a subset of the sentient population of Earth.Trat was forced to improvise. Contact was necessary.Making initial contact was easy. Simply walking to the gate of the facility assured him a meeting with the camps.