The woman pats him on the head and the dog starts licking her hand.The side door opens and Ned introduces Andres and me to the couple. They climb in a...nd we let them sit on the sofa while I sat on a wheel arch box seat and Andres sat on the edge of the mattress at the back.Ned introduced the couple as John and Sue and then told Andres and me,”Sue is new to the dogging game but we met last week at Dunstable downs and I saved them from a group of 4 stupid young Asian guys in a car. They were being. "Wow," I said quietly to Mitch as I sat crosslegged in the wide,comfortable seat and swiveled it from side to side, "class-eeee."He chuckled, "Yep. Only the best for my girl." He squeezed my knee.It took about a half an hour to get everyone on the plane, then anothertwenty minutes or so taxiing to the runways and waiting for takeoff andthen, finally, we were in the air. I know that this is foolish, becausewe all know how an airplane works, but I have always found flightmiraculous! The feeling. But what's a man got if he hasn't got his health?"I sat down again. "That's true... but it does seem like a waste of valuable resources. And how did you get them to sell you one?" The people who build these are, at the end of the day, just businessmen out to make a few dollars. They don't care who they sell to as long as they get their money. Which they have." So why are you telling me this? No... let me guess... you need someone who can run the machine... someone who you've already got in your. I had spent all my attention on the big picture, making sure that we could safely use these starships. That was necessary, but it wasn't sufficient. It was painfully clear that I needed to address the other side of the coin, whether we could use them effectively as warships. There were a couple of Important Questions that I needed answers to as fast as possible.As soon as Appleby Castle was docked at the Northside Training Hub I took the transporter back to Jupiter Station, where Ellen was.