" You should have immediate use of the funds, 'cause its an electronic transfer. It will be sent immediately into your account when I give the release...number I arranged with my bank. You haven't told me yet what the total price will be with the other thirty acres and the mineral rights for it. I need the total so I can transfer the correct amount, and have enough for me to pay all the fees and taxes." The taxes are paid for the year. I always kept them paid for the coming year so I'd not get. “Ben!” he yelled, his voice hoarse and scratchy. He coughed, trying not to gag again, and crawled over to the door. The leg moved a little more, but only weakly.Cameron rounded the corner of the door frame. Benedict was sprawled on the floor next to the sink, breathing quick, shallow breaths. A small leatherbound notebook lay in his lap. His skin was bright red in patches and there was black soot on his face under his nose and mouth. He was clutching his left arm which was blackened. There were. But I’ll take him over Fate any day of the week. We aren’t little kids any more, Squirt. This is real life. It’s messy, and it’s hard, and sometimes it sucks. I love you and I’ll never stop loving you. No matter what.”“I know,” she sighed. “What about us?”“I think we both know it’s coming to an end. Naturally this time, instead of from pressure from our friends. Soon enough you’ll need to start looking for a mate. You know it and I know it. And that’s when we’ll just be brother and sister. "Ladies and gentlemen of the planet Earth, your representatives have failed to show decent humanity towards the Malan children born on Earth, and their mothers. I feel it is incumbent on me, as the appointed spokesman for humanity, to go to Rehome Colony, where these children now live, and apologise to them for mankind's inexcusable behaviour toward them.I speak for those who, like me, were not told that such terrible behaviour was happening. I do not know which persons were the culprits, and.