He left them to wait in a small room."So these are KeeBar's Great Ones," Steve remarked in English. "They look a lot like those striders we saw." Thei... form is certainly less humanoid than that of KeeBar's people," Amy admitted. "Less erect, heavier jaws, and smaller brains in proportion to their size." Perhaps, but their brains are large enough in absolute size, and their hands look dexterous enough," Pete answered."Pete, look here," Nancy called from where she was examining a low table.. Either way, neither of us believed in having an abortion, so the baby was going to be born no matter what! Marta and I would love the baby, even if no one else did. We also intended to keep in touch with the baby's father, too! Though Marta and Omar weren't 'husband and wife', in the technical and legal sense, the fact that they had made a baby together was basically the same thing! Omar had two wives and nine c***dren between them, but now, with Marta, he had (in a sense) acquired a third. The C130-30H was powered by 4 Allison Rolls Royce T56A15 turbines. After what seemed like hours of running down serial numbers and calls to the Iowa Guard maintenance shop, Robbie determined that we had both an engine and a propeller in the parts that came with our C130’s from the military auction, and that they were new units.The problem was how get the engine, prop and necessary stands there along with the mechanics. Lorrie and Robbie were center of all the discussions so I patiently waited. His red eyes surveyed me with mild annoyance, and I took this to be my guy. "Uh...yea...you must be..." He extended a hand stiffly. "Barak Kashman...nice to meet you..please...right this way". He allowed me to go in ahead of him, pausing to speak to the woman behind me for a second. "This way to my office". He brushed past me and I shivered, then started to follow when I was stopped by a hand gripping my shoulder. I looked down at the carefully painted nails, then up to the piercing blue gaze..