Her mum knew this is exactly why her wilful and unruly daughter was being sent to the Academy and maybe a short sharp spanking will do her daughter go...od, so she said, “Go on Lucy, you are going to be coming here anyway, so if you swore you should accept your punishment. Look on it that it is an open day so it is for trying things out.” Lucy scowled, blushed, and made it very clear she disapproved although reckoned a few hand spanks will be nothing compared to what she is going to say to her mum. It was just him and four others so things were pretty calm as they exited the air plane and headed through the terminal. As they walked through the air port, he and his friends were welcomed by random people, telling them how much they had appreciated them for what they did. In front of the air port, he and his friends loaded up in a Hum V for the short ride to the base. Once at the base he received his paper work, was taken to the big parking lot where his truck had been stored. He climbed in. "Look it up. You're not far off but you need to see for yourself."It took me a few seconds to leaf through the pages of a book that I was not very familiar with and finally came to 'potential'."Potential. An adjective: the first definition says, able to exist or happen, possible: capable of coming into being but not yet actual." Whew, I think I hit it close with that one. She looked at me and motioned to keep going. "Expressing possibility; specifically: of, relating to, or constituting a verb. Elspeth was spellbound. Rather than go to her presumed place or to help someone else, Elspeth elected to follow Dr. Richards around. She took notes, made comments, researched things on her phone and generally played gofer. If she had thought about it, Elspeth would have been shocked and a little humiliated. Instead, it was one of the most rewarding days of her life. It also established a pattern for both the week of wedding preparations and the future. Decades later, in her best-selling.