" 'You did, I answered.' 'But you took off,' 'Yes. I got scared, I said' He looked me over, for a second or two, I was wearing shorts and a basket...all jersey. I'd been playing ball when a fight broke out between me and another dude. As luck would have it, I laid the guy out just as the officer walked into the basketball area. The guys friends would have probably of beaten me to a pulp except for his arrival, but when he arrived the guy was prone on the ground and not moving a bit. . Havana was a rough town to get crosswise with the Bosses in.We stopped by the massive abandoned earth cut over in the Panamanian Isthmus of Colombia, and I instantly saw what the problem the overly-ambitious and optimistic French had. There was no human way to move enough earth for a sea-level canal in less than forty years, even if they weren’t dying in droves from disease. Locks were used throughout Europe, didn’t they use locks in France? I could think of several ways to construct them, just. Our main problem was a tendency to over-control, just as if we had been aboard a boat, but Replicator had anticipated that and had included small thrusters to correct any of that we ran into. The thrusters would also help in controlling any wandering caused by stray wind currents.I had been the one to lose the piloting contest, so I was the pilot when Replicator called us back to the vehicle to examine the result of the drone flights. The map was a disappointment in most respects because it did. ”I walked back out to the living room with my drink. “When do your parents get home?”Jeana gave me a big smile. “Not for another couple of hours! Would you like to see downstairs?” She grabbed my hand before I even had a chance to answer and pulled me to my feet. “Come on!”The Colosimo house was unusual for our neighborhood in that it had a basement. My parents’ house, for example, which was an expensive unit on a corner property, was half crawlspace and half slab-on-grade. Jeana’s house not.