Only a peck on my cheek!” The glum look on his face told me if he was being truthful. I took the cigarette from him and took few puffs myself. I was...not a smoker too but did enjoy a puff or two every now and then.I did not want to waste my time so I told him, “It was your father!”Sathya looked at me hard. He raised his eyebrow as if he did not understand what I was telling him.“Your father was the one who spoke to my sister last night. The late night caller! Surprised? I am shocked! When did he. "So lets see what or who he is. Give me his wallet." Anya handed it to me and I left the room. When I was standing in the dark parking lot, I called the number eve had given me."You know what I'm doing," I asked the chick who answered."I know," she said sadly."I need to know who this puke is." Then I read her everything from his wallet. Instead of the usual two hour wait she was right back with it. He has a minor record in Astonia. His record here is clean, except that we can find no source of. PorterCommanding OfficerDemeter MilitiaIt sounded good but the whole planet only had one militia unit and that unit had just about had two hundred mostly untrained people allocated to it. He’d lost the argument over the title because Alex, as head of the colony, wanted to set an example to the whole planet and, as he’d said privately, avoid the sort of problems that the behaviour in the front half of the Aurora, their colony ship, had hinted at.The newly appointed Lieutenant Jeannine Miles. Up I climbed, following the mountain path.“Schnell, schnell!” Even the hissing water seemed to be urging me onwards.The little sparrows watched from the branches, sometimes fluttering down and pecking at some unseen morsel in the leaves on the forest floor.For a moment, I stopped and looked back the way I had come. The beautiful castle shone white as the sun broke through a gap in the clouds but now it was way below me. Above, the clouds hid the mountain peaks like great fluffy scarves. I.