Waiting for the welfare lady to arrive. I got a call from Tina about 11am. She was stuck in a long line and would be at the welfare office all day. Sh...e might be home late tonight, but would call. Before she hung up the phone. She warned me that Missy, the welfare lady, was on her way to the apartment. She looked pissed when she left her office.45 minutes later there was a knock at he door. I got up and peeked through the hole in the door and saw Missy the welfare lady. She was wearing a big. Even now if she gives me a certain look my brain scrambles and I can’t even remember my own name. Women have a very powerful effect over the right man. If this one, is all you can think about than she might be the right one. So, I’ll ask again, who is she?”“It’s Sara, my new assistant.”“Oh.” Was all Spencer said.“Don’t give me that ‘oh’, I know what you’re thinking; never get involved with a coworker. But I do remember that you also broke that rule, and if I remember right it worked out well. The material of the deck has micropores that nanites pull spills through. It’s one of the ways we keep the ship sterile.”The perfectly logical, technical explanation cleared up Melinda’s concern. Now that she knew the truth, she was embarrassed about her earlier fears that the ship had been drinking the blood. If she had known that the absorbed spills were fed into the replicators to be torn apart and reused, she would have been horrified.“As for your question, the Captain has authorized us to. Not that we could have, without the Jeep, but mountains were toxic to her. I think she was allergic to clean air. I could say that I wondered why we ever married, but I knew. Like I said, she was so fuckin’ gorgeous and a young man’s, probably even an old man’s, brain sort of malfunctions around a girl like JoAnn. I guess the real mystery was why she married me? I think I’m fairly good-looking, and I guess she saw me as a ‘project’. Whatever, it didn’t work. The last six months have been so.