”I was having fun toying with him. I was truly surprised that Al Barton hadn’t said anything, and I wondered if he’d intended exactly this kind ...f conversation as some kind of joke or gag. Well, I’d play it for all it was worth.“So some of them were born before you were married, then?”I shook my head, “No. My eldest, Jesse, was born in February of 1986.”“Help me out here. Math may not be my strong suit, but something doesn’t add up. You really have seven kids?”“I do. Jesse is the oldest at. A short while later I was sat at my kitchen table enjoying an early morning cup of coffee as I began to settle into the start of another day. A dull gray day with the hint of light showers in the air as I looked out of the window. This day felt different somehow. As if it was going to be a day I would never forget.Suddenly, there was the sound of the front door opening and I looked up at the young man standing in the doorway."Hey, mom," he smiled in that faintly awkward manner he had as he. I ran towards the force field border where the Nul stood.Below my ship and without a slide belt or other transportation I realized just how big the Tigershark really was. So I increased my running speed, of course Har-Hi had no problem keeping up and he said with grin on his face to me: “It is an unfair situation the Nul is in and that’s why you fought for him at the arena as well.”He could not see my grin as I said. “I guess I am predictable after all.”Har-Hi responded. “You are one of the. And they promise me that I'll be really quite OK in a couple of weeks, and I'll be totally over it a few weeks after that."She came and sat on the edge of the bed, and took my hand, I winced, "Sorry, they've found I've got a small cracked bone in that wrist. They're coming to bind it up soon. It's nothing serious. Come round the other side."So she walked round to the other side of the bed and sat down, and took my right hand. "Do you know who did it? And why? What sort of person attacks an.