She was also the old school matrony type "what she said went", she took no mess, and I suppose this was his family's way of trying to sort him out, a...d to be fair Alex knew straight away to give her no shit, his dad wouldn`t even argue with her she was that formidable.Alex had to move away from all of his friends (some of the cause of his troubles) so now in the evenings he was at a lose end, his aunt worked in the local hospital and she didn`t usually get home before midnight and by this. ?I?d stay down there if I were you,? I advised him before one of theguardians locked him in force cuffs.I knew that Leonida didn?t like not being in front of me. But I didn?twant my people to see me as week, even if the threat to my safety wasvery real.I was watching the view of the squabbling Councilors on a view pad as Ihurried up the steps and turned to head for the council chamber.Carlotta entered from the landing pad entrance and they fell silent forjust a moment. ?Have we forgotten. The sooner he went to bed, the sooner tomorrow would come. And that brought Donna closer to him.A notification sounded indicating that the transformation was complete. Axcix turned her eyes away from the pregnancy tallies to the blinking lights in her display. The outsider had turned completely and now it was ready for release back into the local habitat. Once there, it would stymie and hunt down anyone that tried to interfere with the experiment. A powerful tool.Maybe she should name it? Any. .. cheaper than rail, truck or air.It is slow. Generally, the canals are quiet and clean. There's no sense in hurrying ... think of the next lock. Waiting for up bound traffic. No, don't rush.The canal bottoms were stirred by the bronze propellors of the steel barges. The watch bounced along the bottom; upstream by downstream barges, downstream by upstream ones. Turtles nudged it, carp sucked it and spat it out.The smaller canals became the home of frogs, turtles, fish and the businesses or.