It was clear that we really didn’t know each other that well. In any case we put Victoria in the large spare room with the double bed that backed on...to our bedroom and Mathew was given one of the single rooms further down the hall. They had arrived late and after a couple of wines and innocent chat, which seemed to relax everyone, Victoria confessed to being very tired after the long drive and took herself off to bed. That left Matthew, Jane and myself sat in the lounge. My wife asked Mathew. Just as their mother opened the door Jakob was lifting the target up and blamed the sweat on the moving of cupboards and the heat for how flustered he was. Alex and Jakob exchanged amused glances as they followed her back to the house.Breakfast was Jakob’s mother Dana’s specialty; Bacon, eggs, hash browns, sausages and fried mushrooms. After they ate Jakob cleaned the table and Alex did the dishes, afterwards their parents went to work leaving the two of them home alone.Jakob was in his room. While most ships could safely bypass several hyperspace egresses, the Duality was a bit more limited. In order to squeeze the jump generators on board, I had had to sacrifice some of my jump capacitance. The Duality no longer met the minimum standard and had to make more stops to recharge the capacitors than a normal vessel. The payoff was that we could generate our own hyperspace field and didn't have to use the jump accelerators, which were monitored and heavily guarded. Jump accelerators. "Want some chocolate cake, Nick?" Kim asked her son as he camerunning over and sliding to the floor. As he landed on his knees shebrought him a spoon covered in chocolate. "Stand up hon." Nice panty line." Kim's father joked with her. Kim looked down at her pink outfit and white sneakers. "It's not my panty]ine," she said. "It's my bodysuit line." Nick ran and jumped up and down in front of the camcorder as Jenniferposed in front of the Christmas tree for pictures to turn into post cards..