“When I told her that I wanted to surrender, she called me a coward.”“Wait, you actually told the Matriarch that you wanted to throw in the towe..., and she said no? Korbaz, listen, you already made the right decision. The Matriarch isn’t here. She can’t punish you for doing what you know makes sense. Fuck her!”“You don’t understand,” she continued, rolling over on the bed. She pushed her face into the sheets, her voice muffled. “Doesn’t matter if I defy the Matriarch, the Crewmasters will still. She loved to ride in the car with us. I think the low hum of the engine had a soothing effect on her.Ilse was still unaware of the change of plans, and didn’t know that we’d be flying to Curacao, instead of taking the ferry to Texel. Luckily, Schiphol Airport was on a direct route to the island, which would make it easier for me to keep the change of plans a surprise until we arrived in Amsterdam.This would be Ilse’s first time flying and I bet that it would be a big surprise for her. I had. Jane was watching through a window for the coast of Greenland, and sang out when she finally spotted what looked to her like a major coast line.Oh, dammit, it looked like Thule, AB was under water. In fact, when we compared what we could see against the map we got from AI, it looked like all of the towns that had been in Greenland on Earth were now under water. Dom said, “Bill, it looks to me like we are not going to find a good place for our Greenland beacon. I recommend that we just forget it. You had better have this room he said opening the first door on the left, I kind of peeped in ,I was almost scared to see what was in there. It was a big room, a pretty room ,obviously decorated for a girl, pinks and whites, soft lighting, I loved it and decided there and then that when I got home to my shit pit I was going to do some decorating, well maybe buy some pink towels or something. .I put my bags on the bed and stood there just looking. Johnathon opened a door and said this is the.