Berty Yancey’s heart swelled with pride and love for all her brood, her daughters for accepting the boys, the boys for just walkin right in and beco...ing a part of them.“Well cowhands, I reckon you three have come to a fork in the road. Do you want to ride back into town and come back later with the rest of your duds, or do you wanna stay and let me ‘n Cal bring’em out tomorrow after we get some of the things done up we need to do?”“Tom, we was just gonna ask you ‘n Cal if we could maybe stay.. " A few moments later she passed by the door with both Catlin and Jessi in tow. Catlin waved to me and Jessi giggled. Something was up, I wasn't too sure as to what but Mom soon came into the living room and kicked me out, saying the girls had the living room for the rest of the night. I rolled my eyes as I made my way into my room and grabbed a book. It wasn't long before I hit the light and passed out. I didn't even wake up until I started having a dream, or at least at first it was a dream.. They had made good time, however. Night was no handicap for her kind, and so they would advance on Delta under the cover of darkness.She pulled a hunk of beef jerky from her pocket. The UNN produced brick-like hunks of the stuff for use by Borealans in the field, flavored with native oils from Elysia. It was nice to get a little taste of the homeworld, it seemed so far away. Many auxiliaries spent so much time in Earth-standard gravity and atmosphere that they became accustomed to it, the. Hello Ambassador Jones, is this really you? You’re live on speaker,’’ he said.‘‘It’s not my ghost because I’m still alive much to Candy’s dismay. You are not doing a very good job of countering her whimsical offerings and keeping that balanced program you advertise,’’ I said.‘‘Well there have been a lot of things going on with you and JBG the last few days. It had some people on the edge. It’s a big job sometimes, more than I can handle by myself. I need help,’’ Arthur said.‘‘Unless you are a.