During her training, JC had learned the astronaut community were all quietly advised to use a variety of pharmaceuticals intended to take the edge off...Space. They had Go Fasts to help them stay focused during their overlong work days, sleepers to help them stop--and if necessary--make dying in Space painlessly easy and quick. From the corner of her vision, she saw the status lights on al the CM cameras suddenly turn amber. Now, she knew, only MedCom was watching. A warble in her com cap. He wanted to tell us what to expect.“Coach Sterns and I will be working with the quarterbacks. There are only eight of you, so there will be a lot of one-on-one coaching.”Coach Sterns was the new USC football coach. The previous coach was young and brash. He had rubbed people the wrong way. He was now the offensive coordinator for Alabama. It would be interesting to see how the new head coach would do. USC was a pressure cooker of a job, produce or be gone.“Coach Sterns has a lot of catching up. A few days went on like this, there was a lot of sadness and quietness at home.Neither he nor I were in talking terms. As days were going on I could see the stress he was undergoing, the late night he used to be awake just looking at the ceiling. Even I could feel his pressure. At last, I made my mind to talk to him and see what he is expecting from me. One day at the breakfast table I sat beside him and asked, what do you want me to do? He said if you could entertain him he might adjust the. Nora turned from her task and glared at Varna. "Did you do that?"Varna shook her head "No of course not, I've not even got into the operating system yet." Can you see on the tablet what's wrong?" Yeah, just a moment, Nora ... Oh fuck!" You're rather a foul mouthed little thing for my brother! Well, what's wrong then?" Looks like the cruiser has arrived early and we are standing down. The jump engines are not charged enough to get away and it has all its weapons hot, targeting us." Fuck! Are.