" Thanks boss. By the way we are going to be gone on Friday. It is the end of my pay week, do you think I could get paid today?" Okay, let's do some w...rk on that now. Call the accountant and get the figures plugged in so that we pay your taxes and all that." Okay, what do I tell her to use for a base?" Sylvia asked."We agreed on $300 a week for your half days and I figure I owe you a couple of hundred for the weekend work you did. How about five hundred for last week. We can work out this week. OOPS! The look I received was enough! She told me to always keep one hand on my lap unless I was going to use a knife to cut with. Okay.Next, Mrs. Brown asked me when was the last time I had gotten my hair at least trimmed. She put the emphasis on the "at least" part. I told her that it had been awhile and she just smiled and nodded. (Okay, I now knew what the surprise was!)Thank goodness Gloria was back with our salads! Okay, where was the salad dressing? I wanted to drown this rabbit food. “But that would put us over the requirement for this ship.”“Sadly, as part of the process, Private David Sarkozy and Private Brad Kelly were transferred to the Yularaat station. They have left the ship and will not be returning to Crucible with us,” I said with a shake of my head.“What about their concubines?” Ensign Munfree asked.“A small transport ship will retrieve their pods and move them to Yularaat,” I said. “I may tell their concubines when I arrive, if they haven’t already been. “When the descendants come together, it will create a spark. If they fan the flame, it will grow.” Karina and Ronan glance at each other, and when they look back to Zelda, she’s gone. Vanished from the room, it is only the two of them. Aniyah howls outside, and Ronan rises, stalking toward the door.“Stay here,” he commands, leaving Karina standing in the drafty doorway. Heart pounding, she watches Ronan walk toward the treeline. In front of him are four Icelanders, each as handsome as the last,.