“Let’s go kid,” I chided as I so often had of our age difference. Her face twisted into a faint smile in spite of the woes of the happenings at ...hand. “You’re sure she’s okay with this?” she asked sheepishly. “Yep,” I replied as I held a hand outstretched to help her up as I relayed Jane’s comment, “She said to tell you to let us know if you need a ride to work in the morning,” and turned my gaze through the glass where Jane stood watching with saddened eyes. Brenda looked through the window as. "What the hell have you done to me?" I said."Anthony, we needed to mask the human presence on the pod otherwise the aliens would of found us in the debris field. We didn't think about the nanites, the other captains didn't have them so the process was simple, you however had nanites that had fought the change, Jan had to override them and adjust the changes to in corporate them, not only do you have the alien microbes you have your original nanites." Coral answered me.I looked up from my. “Wine,” Dave asked?“Sure,” Elli replied.Dave poured a bottle of red wine from the galley into a wine glass and brought it to Elli. Then Dave prepared meals for John, Mike and himself.Mike joined Dave and Elli for dinner then quickly finishing his meal relived John to eat. Once dinner was over Dave cleaned up the backend before pulling out another blanket and pillow.“If you don’t mind I am going to catch a few hours of sleep, if you need anything I am a light sleeper,” Dave explained.Elli smiled. ’ ‘Don’t be sad Ali puss,’ said Nicola, using her father’s pet name for her. ‘There’s always tomorrow, or the next day at a pinch. Besides, I have a cunning plan. We can’t stay in Fort William and not climb Ben Nevis, and now we have two hunky mountain guides to keep us safe, and we’ll be so *very* grateful once we get down…’ And that, pretty much, is how Nic and Ali got on the hill. They returned to the boys and artfully dragooned them into escorting them to the summit the following day. At.