She was grilled but finally she was given permission because the girl she was going with was found to be from a family of high standard – boy was sh...e in for a surprise.The motel room they were staying at was very close to the beach and they could sit outside their room and survey the coming and going of the people who passed, especially in her friend's case – the men. "You know what I want this holiday to be Belinda" her friend said."An enjoyable one Heather", Belinda required as she poured. It took only a couple of days for the "field trips," as they had taken to calling their ventures away from the meadow, to be revived.To be sure, not all of the scientists were equally enthusiastic. A few were quite timid about visiting the surface and gave up their places in the rotation to other, bolder colleagues. But that ended when Toshimura, at last free of both traction and significant pain, proved true to his word and insisted on a place on the next ferry trip. Several of the scientists,. Yeah, Megan.'Wili was trying to climb into the Town Wagon. There was a little fold away step on her side ... there wasn't one on the drivers side. Billy was standing beside her, she looked ... up ... and ... confused."Billy? When did you get so tall?" Wili? When did you get so short?"She was ... short.He was ... tall.'I never noticed, ' they thought, like the twins they were ... together, simultaneously, and with identical expressions of shock."I wash your clothes ... I never noticed your pants. We ain’t your average batch of drovers. We might be more trouble than we’re worth for you and your sorry band of assholes.”This wasn’t my first encounter with cattle rustlers. I’d had some experience dealing with this scourge on our normally quiet industry. These gangs are nothing more than lazy, twofaced assholes who’ve never worked an honest day in their miserable lives. Most times they could be bought off with a reasonable sum of coin or cattle. Normally they didn’t want to risk harm to.