‘Besides I promised to make amends for…what was it again?’ He looked to the ceiling as if the answer was floating about. ‘Oh yes—’devaluin...g your property’.’ ‘You did!’ she giggled while trying to sound outraged. ‘It got you here, didn’t it?’ Sean looked so entirely pleased with himself, she couldn’t help but feel flattered. She felt wanted, as though spending time with her was treasured. ‘And seeing that you had such a great time, you should be thanking me.’ Ana shook her head. ‘There’s that. We can leave the back seat in the barge while we are gone," I suggested.I waited while Wilson finished designing the small wash station. "We should have gone down and dug a bucket of that dirt to see what the rock content was," he said."Yeah we probably should have," I said."Oh well it's all or nothing," Wilson said. He was like me there was almost no investment. If we found any gold it would be so damn cool, if not there wouldn't be any real loss. Our real business was still moving right. On the other side of the door was a full length mirror.Carla was covering herself her hands."Put your hands down. Look at your old body for the last time."With effort, Carla complied."Now turn sideways. Look at your profile. Now your other profile."Carla did as she was asked.Alice looked at her. "Most of us did not have the opportunity to truly appreciate the miracle you are about to go through. Some of us, like myself, were young enough that the transformation was not that big a change."Others. “May I ask what is so important that neither of you have eaten nor slept for two days?” Mary asked a little hurt that for once she herself had been at a loss to what either had been doing.“We both remembered that the emperor had said that he didn’t have enough power to destroy a planet. We have been working on it these last two days. This,” Rayburn said as he lifted the three foot long glowing pole, “is a stable generator redoubler. I’d say that with it all power on board should be multiplied..