I know that at least the 'families' here will stay together, so that no one loses a sister or brother concubine nor do the children lose siblings. Tha... is the good news. The bad news is that most of the concubines have never met their new owners. Also they have no idea of what to expect when they arrive at Atlantis-At. What I mean by that is that the society where they're headed is most likely very different from the one where they were before. But since they knew no one there and may not have. " I think I was five," Claire remembers. "Dad's the minion, so I asked him. It made his day." You always were precocious," says Nick fondly. "I usually wait until they're closer to ten." Wow. No wonder Dad was thrilled. I must have been the first of his daughters." Okay," Tillie smiles. "Let's get on that ship." There's a dark part of my existence, as dark as Hades," Nick warns. "I told Claire about it, not explicitly but emphatically, and she claims to want the bad with the good when it comes. So far there had been no sign of Jason, but the DA had managed to prove that the Fosters were not directly involved in his disappearance. The investigators were growing frustrated as well. Jason had no credit cards that could be tracked and the computer databases showed a number of Jason O'Neills in the US, but none proved to be him.The only other significant event during this time happened during a freak thunderstorm. The LeClercs had placed me in Monique's room with a second bed, but the. The two people who had come together at a moment in time have grown more apart after a lifetime of not having one another in their lives. What he thought was once romantic then would be foolish daydreams now. Only, he still remembers their first kiss. For as long as he should live, he’d never forget that first kiss. A first kiss that was a monumental occasion to him then may be nothing more than merely a kiss to her now. Certainly there are much more important things in his life than just a.