’ He paused again, listening. ‘OK, but only if I can talk to him. Put him on.’ Another pause. ‘Jack? What happened? You were just fine when we...left.’ A pause. ‘Yeah, Jimmy said you fell. How did it happen? How much more of that wine did you have?’ Miles listened. ‘You’re going home tomorrow? Do you want me to come and get you?’ Miles waited while something went on at the other end. He covered the receiver and said to Ana, in a low voice ‘Jack had an accident. Brandon and Jimmy found him.’ Miles. Now my Dad doesn’t do much right, but the man loves his tech. Like father like son, I guess. Shortly after buying this lodge, he splashed out on a giant satellite dish that would probably be better suited in the New Mexico desert, scanning for extraterrestrial signals.Yet it was now sitting by the side of the house getting perhaps the only TV signal in a fifty square mile radius. According to the local news, the storm was bad. I mean real bad. Megan and I weren’t going anywhere anytime soon.I. They told her to sit down and the executive director said Jessica you have totally and completely failed your probation, I am revoking your contract, you will be sent to the slaughtering line Jessica was stunned No way I fulfilled my contract and I am out of here, fuck you both she yelled at the top of her lungs as she tried to stand, before she could get out of the chair she was lifted up and her hands were cuffed behind her back and taken down the hall to the room she had been working last. She shouted from the foyer, "Saika and I are going for a walk, Mom." Don't get lost!" came from somewhere around the study. The reply only caused her to consider getting lost just to get some attention. She would be starting school tomorrow with the kids from the ships as well as some who had been on the planet for months. She had heard that some of the school kids were over fourteen and were a mix of sponsors and concubines.Sara had asked the AI where the kids her age hung out. The two girls.