" I replied. "Now I am tired, so I think I will check into a motel." Why don't you come stay with me a few days. It is going to take them a week or mo...re to get your place ready." Jen asked."I appreciate it hon, but I think I will just stay somewhere simple. Somewhere without the residual drama that seems to go along with anyplace I have stayed before."Well, you will need your personal things. They are stored at my house," Jen informed me."I have the things I took with me, I can wear those for a. Then in a loving voice she continued, “And thank you, merciful God, for hearing my prayers.”“Barbara Sloan, if it hasn’t yet registered in that pea brain of yours, I’ll give you another clue: I have to hear your prayers in the same manner you have to breathe. Now am I making myself clear?”After a pause the Voice continued, “In case you might wonder, Katrina won’t remember anything other than learning how to pray. And no one else here heard anything.” Then after another pause He grumped, “When. The crew should have dealt with any emergency, any trouble before he as one of the youngest passengers was brought of cryogenic sleep. At nineteen, Evan was definitely one of the younger colonist, his sister Abigail perhaps the only other passenger of the Eden that was his junior, so if he was hearing the alarm as he awoke, something was seriously wrong. The procedure was for the computer to awaken the senior most crew and passengers first, the ones who had the training and experience to deal. I also told her that Mother knew about us being lovers and that she should tell her what happened this morning. She just nodded.When we got there, Mother was waiting and opened the door before I could knock. She just held out her arms, and Ginger ran into them and hugged her tight."Oh, Mother. I messed up, and I think I got Sam into big trouble. I think I'm going to lose him." She burst into full-out crying as Mother tried to soothe her."Mother, I don't have time now to talk but Ginger will.
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