They'd never expected him to be seconded out of state when they took the lease, never dreamed she'd be alone here. Their only concern had been it was ...cheap and they could save while being together. It had been perfect. Then he got called away. Hell, he'd never even seen it with furniture — she'd had to move in alone, two days after he left.He stepped inside, still holding her. As he moved into the room, she stepped away, nervous once again, watching his face; waiting for his reaction to the. Amelia took the last sip of her coffee and turned around to go back into the house, and as she did, she saw the movement of the panel curtain covering the side sliding glass door move slightly and she paused. Amelia had been caught by her son. She saw his silhouette through the panel slink along the bar as Scotty moved slowly along it. It was the only way he could move to keep himself from being totally seen. If he had moved any other way, Scotty would have been in full view and Amelia knew he. I had to try and bring him downthere. I did a quick check on the weapons manifest and confirmed thatthe jet had no weapons on board. I guessed that Sato's craft was unarmedtoo or he would have engaged me by now. We were pulling over Mach 2 inground effect mode - bouncing about at twice the speed of soundpractically on top of the waves - and I was calculating that we'd bemaking landfall over Kamchatka in a few minutes. I started planning ashutdown sequence, programming it into the avionics. You really know a lot of stuff about this place," she said. "Did you have to do a report on this country once before?" No," I said smiling with the knowledge that a pretty girl was actually talking to me. "I just read an article on Romania in a magazine once and remembered most of this stuff. We'll have to look it all up and do more research for the final project because I'm not positive on all the details, but this gives us a good starting point." You just read and remembered this?" she asked..