"Extra food until your weight comes back. Your appetite will moderate in time." Diana didn't tell her that the information had come from Little One, v...a Jeff.Caitlin and Alesha Turcott were already eating when the General and his family came into the kitchen, and were finished almost by the time the others sat to eat. Dave saw Caitlin eyeing the drive on the monitor. "I just came back from plowing it out. You won't have any trouble." Thanks Dave," both women said, then after kisses, Alesha's on. He wiped his fingers indelicately on his pants. "What the fuck's with you this week?" I'm sorry, Brad," she said, making a face."It's been kind of a bad week for me." Oh, yeah? How so?" Uh... my, uh, little sister's been acting up." So what does that have to do with you?"Heather looked at him crossly. "I told you several times already, I have to look after her when Mom's not home." Yeah, but I thought Tuesdays and Thursdays your Mom was home. Today's Thursday, so what gives?"Heather silently. ”“Well, that is very generous. And if he signs the papers?”“I like your thinking, Evelyn,” he laughed. “You're right, of course; it would be a very lucrative contract and it's only fair that you should be rewarded properly. So, if after all that, he signs on the dotted line I'm prepared to give you four times the usual fee. Does that sound reasonable?”“Make it six,” I countered. I don't know why I'd suddenly started bartering like this, but it was clear from what he said and from his body. The current residents of the cave set out to make a home there and to prepare for the arrival of the next group. The two things they needed to do were to arrange the water supply and to provide a chamber for processing the human shit. Jeff had realized that they would need blasting powder for the mining operations, so they had to save their shit to extract the potassium nitrate (saltpeter) for gunpowder. Now that they had discovered a sulfur deposit, it was going to be possible to make.