"I remember quite a bit about her. I was so scared that I was going to lose my baby, I'm not sure I could have lived with myself. Let's see...she look...d to be around thirty or thirty-five. She had dark hair, pale eyes, and this sallow complexion. She was foreign, too. German I think." German?" Annie and Chris asked in unison."Yes, like Dr. Woerner."The married couple looked across at each other with similar expressions of shock and semi-understanding. "I think we need to go, Betty," Chris. By then in the Diaspora the AIs knew what was going to be needed to set up schools and had it available for the colonies. The AIs were not prepared to set up schools on the ships because most journeys to colonies were three to four weeks long and not six months long. That changed quickly once Burg, the ship AI, recognized the problem and released the information to the teachers on the ship.One thing that no one anticipated was that without school and a lot of space to exercise, six months on. I’d missed her and she’d missed me, and it was great to be back together again.First thing at work the next morning, I dropped the required memo in to Anita, who passed it to my supervisor Adam, who approved it and passed it to Personnel, and my leave of absence was official.The tea-break conversation at work was about the sentencing of the former Labour M.P. John Stonehouse, the one who’d faked his own death on a beach in Miami and run off to Australia with his mistress, getting seven years. I finally reached the city which was sprawled out before me in the distance. I knew I had to have been getting close when I had reached the stone road a few hours back. There where more buildings then I could have ever imagined which looked like a maze of streets and alleyways from where I stood. The town I came from had one road, if you could really call it that, and a single row of houses to either side. The city before was sometimes called the city of the crescent moon with a large lake to.
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