" "Yeah, but you know." Baxter shrugged. "I got support with the lectures. She'd drive me to practice: 'Work hard, Chuck. You can do it.' She'd pick m... up: 'It's a long shot, but not impossible.' All kinds of shit like that. She's a great mom." "With me it was my dad who was the skeptical one. He kept telling me how slim my chances were and all that. Wanted me to have a back up in case it didn’t work out, so I went to college." Brody grinned. "I started with an English major. You should have. The two man air cars were to function as scouts, they took the lead as the rest of the convoy spread apart, and they headed for the robot city.They only encountered one four-man air car filled with robots along the way, which the AAC's promptly destroyed.They approached the city and three ten man air cars rose to meet them. The AAC's blew them from the sky. No more attempts were made as Xtos decided that when the puny humans sought to enter his city he would destroy them with his overwhelmingly. “I believe they would have appreciated you in buckskins as quickly as they would have in a dress.”“I have noticed how much they appreciate me in buckskins,” Julia joked. “I wore the dress so they would keep their eyes above my waist.”“I’m sure that didn’t work,” Joseph answered.“Not as well I expected,” Julia agreed. “Come; it is time for you to relax for the rest of the day.”“I must find a way to resolve this to my satisfaction,” Joseph said.“And, you will,” Julia promised. “But the resolution. Jake ended up face down in a mud pit, having failed to traverse on a zip slider from a wooden platform to another, sixty meters away. The screams of laughter died as soon as they realised Jake was in a bad way. The wind and stuffing knocked completely out of him.Frank was assigned to help him back to base. They managed to commandeer a golf buggy to drive back to the hotel. Frank helped Jake undress and shoved him in the shower to get all the muck out of his various orifices.Once clean and able.