"I think it's so that homeless people don't sleep here," Jenny answeredquietly"Then they are fools indeed," Heather answered. "A person who hasnothing...else welcomes even the earth itself beneath them and they willstill say yes to that invitation when they need to rest. Doing such athing as this is just being cruel."Jenny gave the woman a non-committal response of an answer and went backto trying to conceal that she had been interrupted in the middle of hermeltdown."Pardon Mademoiselle, but you. In the eerie silence came the sound of great bellows and large fans from some distant quarter, which drove the fumes to some other corner with an unusual wind. For over an hour they waited in the thickening air, until the atmospheric alarm sounded again that all was clear."Second time in a month," someone muttered aloud what everyone had been thinking to themselves."Enough bitching," the patriarch Nagala commanded. "Form up groups of six for harvesting. No fighting this time. If someone beats. It's a whole new ballgame and the best one mankind has been invited to since Ellis Island opened it's doors.''Very well, Michael. I must admit that the news of your filter program is comforting. I shudder to think of letting unmodified humans out there on an unsuspecting Galactic population. Now that would give anyone nightmares, 'Elnore sent along with a chuckle.'Yeah, isn't that the truth. Oh, by the way, did I happen to mention that part of the Becoming-a-Colonist deal, was having your. ” Oh great! Just what I needed a bunch of adult baby sitters!Sitting up finally finished, Naci walked with me to Tall Bear’s home. “Come in Toman.” I heard the man say. “We have been waiting for you. Though we wished to start sooner none wished to risk the wrath of your warrior wife.”Naci’s face took on a deadly serious face, “None would have felt it had they not tried to keep me from him!” Naci’s voice snapped as her eyes seemed to grow red a moment. “I will not be kept from my duty of helping.