You must be on the vertical." Yes, Ma'am. We just set it up in the middle of a street in downtown Tifton. I'm here with Bill Monroe and four others wh... live here. It's been quiet all day until we spotted their barriers on the ramps from I-75. We waited there and, eventually, someone saw us and we were greeted. Is Papa around?" Yes, he will be here in a minute. Why don't you put someone on?"I handed the mike to Bill. He keyed it and said, "This is Bill Monroe. Please tell me who you are, ma'am.". ." Dmitry said morosely. Beth giggled and rubbed her foot on Dmitry's leg suggestively. Dmitry looked flustered again. "This isn't anyone's choice, but it helps to have an open mind. It isn't as horrible as you think it is. Just promise to try and have fun. Can you do that?" "I will try, Beth," she said, uncertain. "Good! Now lets get started!" *** Two weeks later they saw the vapor trails and saw faint flashes to the north. They had stopped at Cuba a week earlier and were surprised to see. There were over three hundred folks who wanted to attend on our ship Unfortunately the biggest room on the ship only had room for one hundred and some of the crew had duty during that period. There was some kind of lottery for the folks to attend in person and the rest of the folks got together in mess halls with live feeds from the AI. Each of the other ships had their own meetings and the crew members got feeds through their implants. Once everyone got together, they had a shotgun meeting. A. ‘What are we Mystery Inc.?’ Derek asked sarcastically. ‘Well, we might as well, I’m a little interested too.’ He looked at his brother, ‘Let’s go Scooby!’ ‘That would make you Scrappy,’ Jon laughed as they all hurried down the hall. ‘And I guess Hunter is Shaggy?’ ‘He does sort of look like him,’ Jon grinned. ‘Hey!’ Hunter exclaimed. Kaylie stood behind Jon as he pushed the large, heavy door to the auditorium open and entered. The auditorium was lit dimly by reserve lights which stayed on the.