“Glad to see you have it secure. Max will be happy to hear it.”“Yeah. You have any idea how many you are sending over here today?” David asked....“Well, since you did so good with the last run, Max wanted to know if you could handle forty-five today?”That plus our fifteen meant sixty. Shit. Margaret and Candy will be hustling like sheep dogs to get that all moved through. Might want to tell the guys to work overtime and come in tomorrow to do butchery, David thought.“We can try. Going to be busy.. " We first ran baseline testing of the plants on Aina that are known to be native to Earth. There were some interesting drifts, probably depending on how long each species might have been on Aina, but in general the results met our expectations, and are consistent with our model of the Earth plants arriving here over the last six million years." We then tried to test out the RGS units on plants that we were completely certain never evolved on Earth, the green pepper bush and the red sage grass.. “That’s wonderful to hear, Caity. Can I make you a coffee?”“I would love some!” She beamed.Abbey welcomed her new neighbour into her home. She led her guest through the uproar of boxes and packing peanuts, apologising for the mess. They arrived in the kitchen, and Abbey poured a couple of steaming hot mugs. Thanking her brightly, Caity inquired how she and her husband had come to live in their quiet suburb of Wynford.“Well,” Abbey began, “Robert was offered a job closer to here than our place. But what of the others? What had happened to his girls? Was Cecilia okay? What about Abella?Sensing his anxiety, thick vines gently stroked his arms, soothing him. As it was, the girls would have to figure things out on his own, at least until he could walk. Once that was possible, the next step was to figure out the best way to get home. There was no single path leading away from the Mandragora, which meant he may accidentally wander deeper into the forest.He had to try. Looking in the.