’ ‘You’re kidding.’ Kali shook her head. ‘No, though it does sound like some joke or something, believe me, my brother did not find it the l...ast bit funny.’ Looking back at the certificate, she put it back in the envelope. ‘I don’t suppose they could award this to someone else huh?’ ‘I think it says non-transferrable, or refundable.’ ‘Well it will make an interesting decoration on my wall, because to be honest, I’m not interested in a fantasy…At least not the kind they’re offering, now a week. Huge as in house size but from the edge of the cliff they look like dice. Square cut blocks of ice worn granite. Can’t take the old road and not stop to look at Kings.The Bypass bypasses all the good stuff. Even in Ludington you don’t see the idle car ferries if you take the bypass. Those are the OLD boats. Outlived their usefulness and are even dangerous.There’s usually a couple of laid up Dow Chemical boats on the east end mud. Tugs running in and out ... all the action of a going concern .... Dennis has had a strategic planning fellowship, after which he worked with me. It's going to be a temptation to use him as a resource, but we have to remember that he's got a ship to maintain and a crew to train. Even there, we can borrow crew members."We will need to operate both on land bases beyond these offices, and in space.The first two ships assigned to the Pirates would be of the Peter Minuit class, used by the Confederacy for merchant exploration. After much discussion, Terry and Moe. She had a shelving unit and wardrobe in one corner of the room, a lavender desk with white trim and a white wooden chair with a lavender pad, a lavender toy chest, and finally a lavender and lilac arched canopy bed. "I... umm... I like purple," she said, shyly looking down at her feet. "So I see! But it's a very sweet room." "Thank you, Sir. No one outside my family has seen it before." "No one?" "No." "Not even your girlfriends?" "I... I don't... have any Sir," she said, looking down again..