Now, he had to deal with not only a woman he felt himself becoming very interested in, but had the curve ball of the newspaper reporter thrown at him....Just like Todd, to plan something like that and forget, or purposely not tell Miles. Well, lucky he found them in time! He picked up his refractometer – the reason for stopping at the office, and left, locking the door. He went down the hall toward the sound of voices in the outer portion of the cellar, and found Todd and Cassy. She beamed. One of the new people is an ex-Pirate, ex-Free World Leaguer named Alister Clark. He's a good fighter, handling himself and his Mech very well, he just likes to argue about his orders. He knows better than anyone else how things should be done and always argues that the commander doesn't know the correct way to do things. He's had run ins with Jones, McKinnon, Schultz and Jacobs. This is his last chance. I really hope we can salvage him because he IS a good pilot. If he'd just do as he's told!. They bring their women and children and seem to be bent on taking large swathes of our country for their own." How many are we talking about my friend and where are they now?" Asked Scott."Many thousands Sire, Devon, Wiltshire and Exeter are all but being overrun by them. Another group seem to have taken Northumbria and we are beset now from both north and south."Scott could see that Scotland would face its own trouble from these Danes at some point. He was thinking furiously as to where. The dry desert heat hit them when they walked off the plane; Dave looked forward to the tournament. The team checked into the hotel and then went straight to the golf course. The practice round went well and Dave was impressed by the beautiful Southern Highlands golf course. It was a private course with beautiful scenery and well-manicured greens and fairways. The whole team played well and Dave's putting woes from the previous tournament seemed to have disappeared.They arrived back at the.