– J’ Sarah hemmed and hawed over the decision, while gently sniffing the note that carried the aroma of Julie’s perfume, causing a dampening of ...arah’s knickers. After a great deal of careful and delicate discussions with her parents, and her fiancé, Sarah had finally managed to convince everyone that she would be fine on her own with her old friend from London, and that she would meet them all in Acapulco as planned. *************** Sarah stood outside the airport trying to wave away the. “Welcome to the Circle.”“Thanks. Cord told me a little about this place, but I insisted on coming out because he was so enthusiastic about it. Even he said I had to see it to believe it. So, here I am.” She glanced around, taking in a dozen women who were talking or sunning and wearing only their monokinis. Dave noted that Cord tried to look blasé about the nudity.“What are you majoring in?”“Education.”“Administration, K through six, middle level, or high school?” Dave asked, his interest. We were out the gate and on our way after receiving many wishes for a good journey from those gathered in the bawn.Ballyshannon was soon left behind, and we had covered the four miles or so to Bundoran, which was a sleepy little town. It's one bright spot was a fine hotel, the Irish Highlands, on Main Street. We had no reason to stop and proceeded on. Not far out of the town we came to the River Drowes which flows out of Lough Melvin into Donegal Bay. It is the actual border between County. We approached Jewel on the same basic course that the original settlers approached on. The planet has an atmosphere almost identical to Earth’s and other than the differences in land masses you could not tell the differences.One could easily imagine how the initial settlers would have felt when they arrived. The settlers would have traveled for almost a decade to get to Jewel. They most likely had a picture and scientific readings of the planet from a probe that declared the system habitable..