We then bundled into the Chevy with Jenny at the wheel and both Tomiko and Thelma for company. ‘Hey, ladies,’ said Nate, the receptionist at the ...Police Station who we’d got to know quite well during the last couple of days. ‘I was expecting to see some of you here after what what’s been found. I guess you wanna talk to the DI?’ ‘Is Luke here?’ I asked. ‘No,’ Nate admitted. ‘He’s gotta make an official announcement for the TV cameras. It’s big news round here as I guess you ladies already. His work wasn't brilliant, he didn't know how to shear sheep, or catch them and the grin on his face when he actually managed to mount the dark gelding was enough to let Logan know that the boy hadn't been expecting to stay on. Logan didn't say anything when he caught Shy watching him do things, but he always made sure that he went slow at first, letting the other boy take a long look at what he was doing so that he could copy. Riding, thankfully, seemed to come to Shyland quite. He had rigged their bedroom with some of their dad's monofilament fishing line so that he could make the drapes move, the closet door open and a big rubber spider drop from the ceiling over Allen's bed all while pretending to be asleep in his bed under the covers.Allen suspected his brother was up to his old tricks and had decided it was time to turn the tables on James. He had caught a squirrel in a live trap and it was stashed in the back yard. He had of course kept it well fed and watered. Captain Terrell, Commander Chekov, twenty-four or so security personnel, and he had overheard one of Khan’s brutes saying something about taking control of the engineering staff and using them to maintain the ship’s engines and power, about sixty-five in all. Plus the five Khan had beamed down earlier. Now, accounting for (Kyle guessed) the ten or so crewmen in each shuttle that was lost, and the four or five others in each pod that went down, that left about two dozen people unaccounted for..
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