"Those soles have a lot of miles to cover when we finally make a run for it!" And who says we are making a run for it? Whoever it is must be crazy!" C...arissa's got it all worked out. We have a bottle full of water hidden in the cell, enough to keep us going for a day or two. But you'll need to be able to cover many miles, so get working on those feet! Tramp on all the sharp stones and keep moving about on them all day. It took Clarissa and I about fifteen days before we felt satisfied. So I. I still suffered from the heat. I paid a dollar for a jug of water in Philadelphia then I bought two more in Saint Louis. One for drinking and the other for washing. Needless to say it was a long arduous trip with the exception of two bad thunderstorms on the way. It was the worst storms I ever seen and it scared me very much. The winds were so strong I believed they would derail the train. But it being summer the humidity just didn't go away.On the twelfth day of my journey the train pulled. The saboteurs were not as technically adept as they thought, but unfortunately for the AIs, they managed to do what they intended even though not in the way they intended. They simply didn't know how to disable most automatic safety systems.They managed to disable the AIs access to any type of physical manipulating equipment, leaving them unable to do anything except communicate. Their clumsy efforts also resulted in shutdown of all life support. Control of the ship's drive systems was also. I squeezed through one of the wide holes in the bushes. Looking like a dancer, I lifted my bare feet high off the hot cement of the BP lot. I hustled to the store's front door, dying to feel the air conditioning inside. I burst through the front door and breathed in a lungful of hot air."Hey, where's the kool air?" I shouted at the young black boy behind the counter."Power drain," he said, looking up, "we had to shut down the air conditioner to keep the rest of the things running."His eyes.