There are a few of them where you should be able to carry one of the ballistae right up to the edge of the woods," one of the other scouts remarked."W...at are our chances of moving in there without being spotted?" Sid asked.In a hard voice, Badger answered, "I've been having a little fun in the woods. I doubt they have five scouts left. They won't have any by the time you're ready to get down to business."Sid looked over at Badger and recalled how he had gotten his nickname. The man was. My father’s cousin Lisa married a man who owned a horse ranch and every two or three years Lisa and Greg would invite me and my sister to spend a few weeks with them. I loved our times at the ranch and Lisa taught both of us how to tack and ride horses. Greg and Lisa bred and boarded horses; now I don’t know anything about the business side of ranching but it must be very lucrative because they became quite wealthy from it. My sister and I learned 3 things about a ranch when we were growing. Well I would prove her wrong. I was going to spend every spare minute poring over them. Somewhere in those volumes was the means for returning us to our original bodies, and I intended to find it. I picked up the first notepad and began to read. No time like the present to get started.... -4-I didn't hear the doorbell ring in the other flat, but I guessed it had when I heard their door open and someone trotting downstairs to let their visitors in. It had to be. He drove all of them unmercifully and most of all he drove himself, surviving on a few hours sleep each day. He knew it was just a matter of time until the robots attacked again. This time if he had anything to say about it they would be more than ready. He did all this under the watchful eyes of Tani.Steve called Tani to his office. He told her that he wanted her to study military training on the computer and once learned she was to apply it and train each and everyone except the children..