Smart mom, I'd say." Oh, I guess I didn't know about that. You must have caught a lot of hell over that." Not really. Mom was pretty cool about it, mo...tly wanted me on the pill. She still lets me have Ricky come over to our house though his mom wouldn't let me visit him. Well, she just didn't know after that." So, Mom must have known that you and Ricky were fucking whenever he came over, right?" Right." Geez, I just never knew. You've been busy, Sis." Yep. And it looks like my big brother would. I wound up hanging onto a rope for balance.Cindy was last, porting several backpacks from the arctic filled with optical disks. I pushed those to the rear of the front cockpit, and then when Cindy was finished she waved at me and I jumped us both to the plane.A'moth was already active at the controls. "Doors are already sealed. Batteries are full charged. Amazingly, there's still a bit of liquid hydrogen in the tanks. It never boiled off..."I nodded as I sat in the pilot seat next to her.. As shitty as the rest of the trip had turned out to be, this knowledge was safely stored in my head and made the rest more or less bearable.Still, I so wished for the damn bus to finally stop.To my surprise, it did exactly that. Confused, I looked around. This didn’t look like the ancient temple city I wanted to reach. There was nothing to be seen but jungle and suddenly frightened looking locals around me. The driver got off his seat, pushed the squeaking front door open and quickly stepped. Well, I worried that I was actually slowing down since I couldn’t complete the action and fire the handgun.Plus, I was starting to second-guess our plan, our strategy with Quinn. Was it too complex, too cute? Had I been too impressed with the Gilmore Girls’ sophisticated thinking in Helena? Had I latched onto a long-shot scheme merely because I’d promised myself to try new things, to take different approaches?Then I remember Captain McIntyre’s pre-battle advice to his troops, “We have a plan;.