അവരടുത്തു വരുമ്പോള്‍ തന്നെ ഒരു മുഷിഞ്ഞ മണമായിരുന്നു.മഴ...��്കാലമായാല്‍ ഞങ്ങളുടെ പുരയില്‍ കിടക്കാന്‍ പറ്റാതാകും. അപ്പോള്‍ അവരുടെ വീട്ടിലാണ് ഞങ്ങള്‍ പോകുക. അതല്ലാതെ വേറെ മാര്‍ഗം ഇല്ലായിരുന്നു. അമ്മയുടെ വിചാരം അവര്‍ക്കെന്നോട് ഒരു മോനെപ്പോലെയുള്ള സ്നേഹമായിരുന്നു എന്നായിരുന്നു. ആ ദിവസങ്ങളില്‍ അമ്മ വെളുപ്പിനെ എണീറ്റ്‌ പോയിക്കഴിഞ്ഞാല്‍ അവര്‍ വന്നു എന്റെ അടുത്ത് കിടക്കും. എന്നിട്ട് എന്നെ കെട്ടിപ്പിടിക്കുകയും എന്നെ നിക്കറിനുള്ളില്‍ കയ്യിടുകയുമൊക്കെ ചെയ്യും. ചിലപ്പോള്‍ അവര്‍ അല്പവസ്ത്രവും ഇട്ടായിരിക്കും. Miranda inspected the, now gaping hole, then trimmed it up just enough, she then took a needle and cotton and went about carfully sewing the material to stop it fraying around the edges and to make sure that where the hole came to under the cheeks of her bum that it was strengthend, she also had to re cut the materail in a vertical to the wasit band and re-sew it so it looked neater. Finally she held the one legged sheath up, a satisfactory job, she thought to herself, though it's not rubber it. A special security officer prevents a star ship, its data base and its crew from falling into hostile hands." You didn't do a very good job of that, did you?" Matilda smirked."Worse, mum," I admitted. "I failed miserably. The crew was questioned and we told all. The data aboard the Futile Gesture is compromised. The ship itself has been disassembled—it will take a lot of work to make the ship space worthy again. If HoChaRa ever gets their hands on me again, they will torture me to death slowly. If you have focus you have no control or acceptance of what needs to be done. You have the understanding, but no power to do anything. If you have acceptance but not focus or control you are only trying to maintain who you are. When you master all three, no amount of power, no great enemy will be able to defeat you.’ Letting this all sink in Masa thought about all of this and wondered what she would have to do to get all of those mastered. It was then that their food arrived. Masa’s was green.