I was ready to leave with the rest of my flight when the takeoff was scheduled for just before dawn the next morning. Like everybody else, Jack though...t that I was crazy, but he was good natured enough to go along with my crackpot scheme. He was going to lead the other two planes in covering for me when I made my pass at the observation balloon. If everything went as I hoped, he and the other guys were going to be in more danger than me, but I did not point that out.We took off with Jack leading. “Jenny? She told me she is Vyera Anatolyevna Kuznetsova.”“Ah, so do the names tell us anything?”“Vyera means ‘truth, ‘ a useful virtue in a slave and especially if she is working on data analysis. Kuznetsova is a rather common Russian family name but, equally, it is a name shared with several famous Russians. Anatolyevna is interesting. Her patronymic. It would normally be the name of her father — or perhaps it is derived from the name of her owner: Anatoly.”“An artist should sometimes be. But Reed hadn't mentioned Evan's name once, she just kept talking about Trevor himself. He tried to get a word in edgewise, at least to thank her for her sympathy, but couldn't do much more than squeeze out a few words in between Reed's monologue."We wanted to do something for you, Trev," she was saying. "Something special. And I thought, well, you know -- something you really wanted, something you'd remember. Just in case --" Reed bowed her head, no longer looking him in the face. "Just in. As the last person went I stood up, turned with my back to the teacher and bent right over to pick up my bag, deliberately showing the cheeks of my arse and hoping he would see me, I slowly walked to the front and behind his desk standing patiently by his side. “Katie, you know you don’t wear jewellery so I have to take it off you” “but sir! My mum gave me this and I wanted to show my friends” I said looking weepy “you know the rules” he said “Oh sir cannot not just take it home and we forget.
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