”“Seriously?” the captain smiled. “Okay we did hear a couple of shots. Still, what is it you are not telling me?”“There’s nothing I’m ...not telling you,” Mia smiled back confidently.“Alright, never mind, I like you, fighter girl who shoots Americans. Let me go ask someone, maybe we can help another way.” He walked off briskly.“Let’s plan,” Mia got Paul and Mo aboard, separated Claude and Zara, and got them round the table in the narrow cabin. “Where can we go? We don’t have much fuel and this. They would again be forced to their knees so they could say another series of lengthy prayers before being allowed to enter the convent and begin their normal duties. Although their hands were freed and they were given rough clothing to cover their nakedness, they remained hobbled as still another form of self discipline and piety as decreed by their confessor. During the day they were kept separated, usually one assigned to the lower floor, the other performing her tasks on the floor above. . ”Har-Hi who had just finished helping Circuit to weld the steel beam supports underneath Hans bed said.” Good idea, I am actually quite hungry.”Circuit put his tools away. “I wish I could have that Simu-Eat upgrade done as soon as possible. I always want to share our dinner and not just sit there.”I turned to him as I straightened my uniform and checked my shave.”What is that?”“You know I don’t eat. I can’t even pretend to eat as I have no throat, no stomach and no tongue, but I am a machine. There had been so much suffering and ravaging of the land. I still had at least 10 months to go of my own service to the Madame though even if the war were to end.“They said the war would end after Gettysburg last year,” Penelope reminded him skeptically and told him not to believe everything he read.“What about the Bible?” he asked her.“That is the word of God,” she reminded him and considered his question blasphemous.“If you believe so strongly in the word of God, why do you sin?” he asked.