"You treat her with respect, y'hear? You make sure she's comfortable."I didn't have to answer. Millie had seen us and rushed over. "I made it!" she sa...d.I felt awkward, not knowing whether to hug her, or shake her hand, or what. Finally I grasped both her forearms and kind of held her out at arm's length. "Hey, Millie!" I said."This is my Dad -- Bill Sutter."Dad was a little cooler than I was. He shook Millie's hand, and asked her whether it had been a comfortable trip."It was my first airplane. “Keep an eye open for any AI or memory housings. We likely can’t read the data, but we can learn a lot by studying the technologies employed.”“Got it. We’ll examine all the knobs and gizmos and see which way the zero-G toilets flush,” Gary teased. “We’ll uncover plenty of shit that way.”“We’ve located a weapons locker,” Del said. “We can determine the types of armaments they used.”“Great, we can learn how ancient weapons-technology works too!”“Technology builds on their basics,” she pointed. ”I opened the door that had been the brothel’s entrance. I had overlooked or forgotten that the four women’s photographs were still on the waiting room’s wall.“I’ll come back later today and remove those,” I said. “They’re respectable members of our community now and don’t want to be reminded of their past ordeal.”“Aren’t some of them married now?” Alan asked. “Three of them are. Tamara probably will be soon even if Tom is the only person in our town who doesn’t know she wants him. All four of. Helen's corner of the food industry was catering and she loved it. I was probably the only one pushing for an indoor location. I wanted to sit down to breakfast like I did at Hardee's but I wanted Helen's food. In other words, I wanted what I wanted, and when I wanted it. Typical female you say, and I ask, "So what? We control half the worlds resources, and we control all the world's pussy, I think you guys better learn to live with our little idiosyncrasies.The bike ride proved futile. There.