He wasn’t really little anymore, but I still had the image of him when he was about 12, playing soccer in the fields with a band around his head kee...ping his longish hair out of his eyes. He was always very cool and calm, and now that he was growing up, he had shot up a full 5 inches taller than me. His body was slim and Sarah told me he sometimes went to the gym. I ran up to them to catch them before they left. “Hey Sarah! What’s up beauty you trying to show your breasts to the world?” Sarah. “So do I,” I chuckled, as the others began laughing, too.“Anyway, I’m Russian as well as Jewish. My father was a true, full-blooded Russian. My mother was the first woman in her family to marry outside the Faith. I guess that rebellion runs in my family, since I quit the synagogue when I converted to JW ... and now I’ve basically left that, too. Shouldn’t we introduce the rest?” Natalie grinned, even as I altered both Emily and she into pixies right before everyone’s eyes.“Plenty of time for. I am on my way to the bridge.”He chuckled, “not wasting time.”I smiled, “time is money.”The ship was still intact. Almost full fuel cells, full water tanks, loaded ammo magazines, the kitchen only had rations but after this first run that would change. I called for everyone to come to the bridge. I went over our course and cargo and the danger and ... ten hours of constant work and we were loaded and had a schedule and were moving out of the system.It had cost everything I had to get the cargo. That was an old tradition I would have been happy to share in.Colonel Barlow wasn’t waiting for us when we arrived this time. I was fine with that. It might be fun to play with the officious bastard, but that wasn’t who I was really looking forward to seeing.We had arrived a little before lunchtime, so I asked all the crew have their family reunions in the mess hall and we could all share a meal together. It was a lot of fun to watch the crewmen share their stories about our latest mission and.