The family sued and my medical staff turned on me saying if I had performed it in the traditional manner she would have lived, which is true. She woul...d have lived a life in a bed with no mind to speak of. I gave her an extra year," said Dr. Song."Now I fix bones and abrasions. Hardly challenging." When was this?" I asked."2008," she said."How old are you?" I asked, my curiosity getting the better of me.She grinned, looking sideways at me. "That's rude. I am old enough," she said.I rolled my. No one ever tried to use the gate. Only the existence of a pair of high tech electrical generating windmills turning in the nearly constant desert wind gave any indication that the facility was not abandoned. The winds in the Australian Desert used to be non-existent, but with the change in climate, winds were fairly constant and strong. If anyone had come, they would find a small family of aboriginals who lived there.The guts of the 3408 facility was underground, fortunately for the livability. After looking at Caitie he murmured, "Thank God!" Looking at Dawson he asked, "We were in time, weren't we?"Dawson just grinned, nodded, and said, "You sure were! But just."The man then turned to the two women and said, "How do you do? I'm Fred Franklin, chairman of the board at Children's Hospital. Bill Dawson, here, was calling everyone looking for A-B Positive blood. Thankfully, he reached someone at Children's who had some brains. She asked him who it was for, and he replied, 'Caitlin. He told us he had only been working here for a month or two as relief for the summer and he had never seen a group of three people who fitted the description we gave. Ann shot me a glance that said “told you so!” she was to eat those words. The meal over we decided to try and find "the homestead", so bidding the barman goodbye we were soon in the motor and set off for the military canal, the only canal for miles, there were a dozen or so possible houses we had marked on our map, so we spent a.