While you were circling around the Anomaly and keeping your presence hidden from human technology your cousins from Sirius were doing much the same th...ing, but they also managed to keep their presence a secret from you as well. There has been a complex web of conspiracy and espionage in the Solar System which has involved not only your civilisation but also those of the other neighbouring star systems. Sirius has been rather less scrupulous than you in infiltrating human society. Who knows?. No rush."Richard went off to collect the morning papers. Deborah turned to Annette."Ready to tell me about the party?" she asked.Louise looked questioningly at Annette who polished off the last of her cereal before saying, "It was fun mostly." She told of the games and the highland dancing and the food. "Then a very nice chap called Harry asked me to dance. Do you know, Mum, he's seventeen?"Deborah dutifully raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Gosh, darling!" We got on really well. He's a hockey. Big, sharp knives. "I dance with my friends and against our enemies. I join this company with all honor." We kissed as compatriots. We did good with our little Gina. She was a cuddly little ball of razor blades!When Ted saw our machine shop with its CNC milling machine he got a nasty little grin. "You get me the stock and engineering drawings and I can build you anything that'll fit on the cutting table." Nice to know! I knew that our demand for milling machine bits and drills were about to. Helen Piper was the P.E. Teacher and the nominal coach of the team but I tended to look after everything on the pitch and help with training. Helen was in her early twenties and in her first teaching job. Tall, slim and as you would expect, extremely fit, Helen was loved by the girls who seemed to relate better to someone nearer their age than most of the other teachers. Helen didn't fall short in the looks stakes either and was regularly hit on by most of the single fathers and teachers as.