Either a nurse or visitor. I silently put my money on nurse given how often people were coming now.I washed up quickly, not wanting to take any more t...me from the nurses than I needed to. When I opened my door, it wasn’t a nurse though. Donald was waiting for me.That surprised me some. It was still early and I knew he had a habit of sleeping in on weekends.“Morning,” I said to him carefully as I climbed back into bed. “What brings you by this early?”“I would have come last night, but I figured. "Everything OK down here, Phoebe?" A-OK, Boss. Not like you've been gone long. We did figure out how to hold the shield intact with the hatchway closed. The Aurorans had the info buried in a file about geothermal specs. We're reorganizing every thing in here. Amy wants to talk over a job you asked about earlier. Now she won't tell me." Pete heard a cyber pout. "She's keeping it a secret." Don't worry, Pheebs. Maybe she is planning a birthday party. Try not to spoil her fun." He chuckled. "No. She jogged the beach eastward for more than an hour, an easy loping gait of three-minute kilometers. After a while the township was far behind her and she ran admiring the undisturbed wild shore. At the end of her jog, she spent some time practicing Tai Chi in a deserted cove, and then sprinted back to town at full power, finishing her morning exercise with an energetic swim in the warm ocean. Afterwards she chatted with several of the parents at the beach, mostly mothers with a few fathers,. From there to here, where we grounded, and where we are, is unknown ground, except we do know we drifted over it once.I’m backing toward that last known red dot.Known water depths, deep enough and wide enough, to safely turn around in. Point the bow down the trail of red dots, and go.” Laura is explaining the information on the electronic chart display and the action plan she has devised.“Good plan!” Laura is gently amused by my braggadocio unqualified approval of her expertise... Flashbacks.