She spun around into a firing crouch and saw a woman with flaming red hair and a wide smile standing there. "Don't shoot," the woman said. "I'm your c...usin Jan. I wanted to surprise you, but not like this." Cousin Jan, from Procyon IX, what in Isis' name are you doing here?" Medical leave. A prong hopper on Cassiopia V nearly got me. Put me in a robodoc for 3 months, then the director told me to take a vacation and here I am. I was in the hydrogarden admiring the jelly flowers when I heard your. I was going to go hang out in the library and read up on some things and hang out until then”. This is perfect, I can get a ride right to my destination and yet I said “me too, my first class isn’t until 12:00, we can go hang out in the library and I’ll find my class from there, thanks”. And with that I opened the door and climbed into a day I will always remember.“Since we have some time, it’s a beautiful day and I’m sitting with a beautiful girl, you know what would make it even better? Ice. There's an organization y'all have met previously called 'The Brotherhood.' They're the ones with the burning cross tattoo. They're an extreme sect of the KKK that's out to bring the Confederate States back to life. They can't win, but they're too fanatical to admit that. They think that they can git what they want by causin' a whole lot of trouble. So far, all they've done is git a lot of good folks kilt. In my opinion, they're jus' plain crazy. Too far along to reason with. We've managed to. The umbrella lasted about as long as it took us to get out the door, and we were soaked, even with rain gear, before we got to the truck.I put the truck into low range four wheel drive. I probably wouldn’t need it, but you never knew. The rain was a solid wall, with occasional glimpses of the road. I did about five miles an hour, running over anything in the way. The destruction of the tent sites looked like something from a tornado video. I couldn’t believe it when I saw theirs still standing..