Quickly, she pulled the nightshirt down just as his mother came into sight on his left."Are you all right?" his mother said kindly."Yeah... " Brenda a...swered, "uh... Brad did his job." I certainly did!" Brad said, not even moving to cover himself. And in front of his own mother!"Brad, get your shorts on and let us be alone, if you don't mind," his mother said, keeping her gaze averted."All right," he said toward his mother. But before he moved off the bed, he reached down to rub her left knee. "The garden is going to be a little bigger than last year because I cleared some brush from the outer edges. I've already fertilized and plowed it under last fall, but will do it again before we prepare to plant. I think I'll have enough manure for all the fields, including the new field I now have. It's about seventy acres, so my crop size potential is a lot higher. If this weather continues to warm up, we're going to begin planting early, possibly starting next week."We began figuring on how. "When we got home, David unpacked and took a shower. I felt this urge to pick up the phone and talk to Danielle, just hear her voice while he was showering. Jesus, Nina, you've only been away from her for two and a half hours. Think you can find something to keep you busy? I shook my head to clear the image of me bundled up like an eskimo, walking to a snow-covered Mercedes, my tears freezing on my face as I hoped to reach Danielle on my cell phone... When David came out of the shower I was. Few people are in the trans-dimensional room for longer than a day. The longest I’ve ever heard of someone being there was for two and a half days. There’s much that I can say to prepare you, but I shall do my best.”Lucia ordered a small meal when she arrived at the canteen.“The computer spans eleven different trans-dimensional rooms. They are clustered around the computer which has different parts of itself in different dimensions to take advantage of the different characteristics of each.