S. Immigration. He secured a loan from a local bank using his securities as collateral and bought a house in Walnut Creek. It was a modest rancher wit... a single carport, but in a nice neighborhood. He had listened carefully to his real estate agent's recommendations and chose location over style.The front and back yard were formerly grass, long since burned out. Steve had no gardening or landscaping skills while Diana was an accomplished gardener and loved the challenge of restoring the outside. " Work for you what as?"Hugo then pulled out a very thick file from his briefcase consistingof four or five smaller brown cardboard folders, he took the top fileand undid the thin waxed string bindings and opened it, Hugo thenspread several black and white surveillance photographs across thetable."I must apologise Silvanus but you have been under constantsurveillance since returning home, initially for your protection butlatterly simply because you intrigue me." I looked through thephotographs. As soon as they appeared, Derrick started. "It appears that even with the destruction of one of the spheres, they are still coming to finish the fight. We are without the backup of the Imperial planet." We still have ten ships in the fight, sir. That should be more than enough to kick their asses," Thomas stated.Derrick nodded. "It should. Though, as I remember, it took all five of you last time to take out one. You have twice that this time. But don't think they haven't tried to improve since. He gathered several square silverpackages and placed them into his bag and tossed the bag on the couchbehind their chairs.They sat at the table and the professor signaled for the first man toenter via the intercom.She smiled graciously with her dirty blonde hair hanging over her notoverly buttoned blouse. The boy who stood nearly 5 foot 11 inchescouldn't help but smile as he nervously looked away and towards theprofessor's assistant student.They all shaked hands and exchanged pleasantries."Good.