I could see in the rear view mirror that the two of them were looking at each other, not quire sure what to say next. “Okay, mum and dad,” Christo...her started, “we both just want to say how much we enjoyed being together these past few days. Thank you for organizing it all for us.” “We’re only glad that you two were able to utilize the prize I won,” Una said. “Mum, you know that you never won any prize,” Karin replied. “What gives you that idea,” Una asked with a surprised tone in her voice.. Karick had drilled the ‘normals’ (non-Vessels) in their roles for the past month, and with electronic surveillance indicating that Lord Thornbow was soon to arrive back in Britain, the time of action was nearing. The flight itself was uneventful, however, he had a surprise encounter at Heathrow. ‘Alan! Alan! ALAN!’ he heard. He resisted turning his head, for the name on his travel papers was not his own, and he feared he was still within earshot of Passport Control. Instead he and his traveling. She didn’t go crazy over it like Janet Turnbull, but then she didn’t end up “with child” right out of school like Janet either. It was easy enough to pick up a guy at the Green Room, especially after the mines expanded to meet the wartime need for coal. Plenty of miners were single, and a no-strings girl like Ella could get her itches scratched without too much trouble. Most women were competing for the “keepers,” the marrying kind. Ella knew her reputation was worse than it should have been –. I not only lost my wife and son, but Velda was seven months pregnant with our daughter to be, who we were going to name after her grandmother Jeneve II, so I felt my loss was considerably greater than my father’s loss, although he lost his wife, daughter, and his only grandchildren.My aunt, Gillian came to stay with us for the funeral ceremony that we held for her sister and the other lost members of the family. I had always got on well with Aunt Gill, she was much younger than my mother and.