“We may need to be a lot more careful in how we approach the other system.”“Sounds like a good idea,” Chris added. “Well, we are stuck here ...for at least a month or two before we can investigate. I wonder if we can find some of the old crew members amongst the survivors and have them fly the freighter and take the prisoners back to Earth for us.”Chris’s Mad chimed before anyone got to comment and he took the call. “Hi, Dusty what’s up?” he listened to her and frowned for a bit and then grinned.. The smile alone would have made me notice him, and now that his robes weren't flowing in the wind, I could see his muscular body was no slouch in the looks department either."Ah, but not like American men in the magazines I have seen," he said with a wave of his hand and a smile. "The desert makes you lovely, but it bakes and burns me so I grow old before my time. It is the way of things." You're better looking than any American man I've run into," I said, not knowing exactly what I was. Her very thick lips combined with a smallish mouth, giving itpermanently puckered look. It was a genetic line Jade readily recognized.She decided Miss Pazzini was most certainly a very undiluted strain ofEastern European. But as Leona?s grandparents? disdainfully noted ontheir visits to the States, ?Ah, America. Such a mixed up place a lastname means nothing here. No tradition. Even the Germans can have Italiannames!?But that was not the only thing off about this woman. She had a broad,flat,. Oh, yes,’ he chuckled, ‘they lived outside the law and will die outside the law. I will be applying to them the same law they lived by.’ Returning to Jennifer, he sat holding her hand and stroking her cheek. He didn’t hear the whirr of the chopper as it left with the visiting surgeon on board. Days lengthened into weeks and every hour in the ward Peter sat with Jennifer trying to break into her mind. He talked, and read to her but to no avail until at last, defeated, he realized his Jennifer.