Going from Aina to Earth, the bubble used to go 6.5 million years into the past. But without the ring, the temporal shift collapsed. We're in synch no.... There's an explanation for all this, in the X-tree coding. It explains everything." Go on..." said Mark."The WFM won the war. They exterminated the Equalists. The WFM quickly built up the population back to four billion and devoted their time to cleaning the planet. They did that, I'll give them that. Not much else. They were monsters. They. "We'll talk about this later Stretch, let's go."Taking down camp was never much work; we did not expect to stay in one place long so we were always ready to bug out.For once I was glad of the noise of the track. I didn't have to talk to Katrinka, and she was still excited by riding in the rumbling vehicle.When we got to the platoon ops, collocated with the Company and Battalion HQ's, I was surprised to see two TACJAM huts sitting there. Wolfelt's I was familiar with, but the second one had the. So off to the luggage store I went to look for some new luggage.Stepping into the luggage store, I surveyed many different types and sizes of luggage. A shapely young lady, who I surmised was probably in her late teens, and wearing a short flower-print sundress, stepped up next to me as I studied an expensive piece of luggage. She was both cute and very attractive.“That is a good piece,” she said softly. Almost immediately, my senses perked, her sweet perfume filling the space where we stood.I. I shouted up to her that I was finished and she asked if I could come up and give her a hand. So I went up to the room where the voice was coming from, she asked if I could just help her with just one more thing. Could l get her case and put on top of the wardrobe, no problem I said. She had the steps ready for me, I got the case and started up the small set of steps, I put the case up and she asked if I could pass her bag down. As I got the bag and turned to get it to her, I could see her.