It is a soft, pale lavender and has a pleasant silky feel to it. It has an egg-shaped section with a cable leading to a control unit. Only two buttons... an on/off switch and a function selector. I carefully insert the batteries and try the on switch. It immediately buzzes like an enraged wasp and, with a squeak, I throw it down on the bed. There it lies angrily buzzing away. I am sure that the whole neighborhood can hear its angry drone! After a few seconds I realize that I am being silly and. I wasn’t sure where I was and wondered if I was dreaming, but if it was a dream it wasn’t very imaginative. Surrounded with nothingness, emptiness. It was like waking from a deep sleep, yet I don’t actually remember drifting off. As my brain started to wake, brief flashes came at me in waves, unrecognisable until they settled on one image. The image was of a young woman who looked about seventeen-nineteen, around my sort of age. She was perfect in every way, so much that I envied her even. You chose to go underground with that loony. We did not send you. We gave you room for manoeuvre, and you took it. But remember, WE ARE IN CHARGE. If we decide to pull you out, we shall.’‘High Noon’‘What?’‘I see myself more as Gary Cooper than Yul Brynner.’‘More like Eric Morecambe in Magnificent Two’ a laughing ‘voice’ said. ‘Okay, look, we won’t pull you out yet. Maybe you could find out more about the Iron Specialism?’I’d told them about the suggestion there may be some men willing to mate,. We need to make sure that the farm keeps good activities. This is one I would like to see continued." Waush Shaua said.He was right. I gave him a lick on the ear. We went inside and to bed.The next day we met with Jessica, Mat and Neil. "I want to plan an event for next year. Waush Shaua's and my problem is that we will be on Earth at UC Davis. We hoped you would continue to have Thanksgiving dinners while we are away."Jessica, Mat and Neil said they would do the parties.We then got to the plan.