"Jon relaxed slightly, "I thought about doing it the old traveler's way ... but it has been so long I didn't know if I could do it."The man nodded, "S...ome skills fade with time," he said in a faraway voice.With that, the ragged man went about his business, and within a minute he had the dry grass spitting up glowing embers. Within three a small fire crackled.The man sat, "There," he said, "That should keep the cold away. Name's Daniel by the way," he said with a nod to each of us."Jon," said my. They made up The People’s primary center of advanced learning - excepting the males and many of the females that were away hunting.”Then he added, “About the rescue - against all odds, another species’ colony transport was transiting their system when it detected the asteroid and its disastrous trajectory. This group was selected for rescue based on its size and distance from the projected impact. The colony ship is huge, but only had space left to crowd onboard a fraction of the. I sold the city fathers on "protecting our trade routes" and got them to raise a portion of the militia to look into the situation and push back, if necessary. I hoped that there would not be any fighting, though I wasn't going to bet on it. Alice and I would lead a force of 300 militia armed with guns, pikes, and plenty of artillery ammunition against the invaders.Actually, we only took pike heads, since we could get wooden poles for the shafts at any time. As usual, the Ruman Army was close. “Sure,” I said. I couldn’t do it; I couldn’t do any of it. I didn’t have any money, and I was in a wheelchair, and I didn’t know anything.“Sam, there are going to be legal matters to take care of. Would you like me to take the lead there?” he said.“Legal matters?” I said.“Yes, your dad’s house, insurance he might have had, other stuff,” he said.“Oh, okay, I guess,” I said. I hadn’t thought of any of that. Dad had said he was going to help me with some car stuff, but I didn’t know what funds he.