? ?Yes,? was all Petra could think to say. As she listened to the rain outside Petra felt a chill. She pulled Barb closer, the blankets up higher and ...drifted off to sleep.In the morning Petra awoke alone in bed. Barb was in the kitchen and the smell of coffee was making it?s way up stairs and into the bedroom. It was still grey outside and Petra snuggled deeper in the warm bed. Barb appeared in the doorway wearing a pink satin robe, bedroom mules with a 3? heel and red feathers over the instep. The girl has the same stocky build, the same slight colouration to her skin, the same black, curly hair – though her hair is not cut short but flows down her back in waves.I walk up to them and stop. Benito stops the endless stream of chatter from the girl with a wave of his hand.He turns his face toward me."Edward Richardson?" I'm here." Edward, I would like you to meet one of my children, Gianna. Gianna, this is Mr Edward Richardson."The girl jumps up from the bench and holds out a hand."How. The scanner will tell you there's a fifty megaton mass at a particular set of coordinates, and when you get there you find nothing." Mining the rift is an up close and personal business. That's why almost nobody does it," Ross told them. "Kat, if you access the Tenerif sections of that old navcomm of mine, it has all our routines in it. They should prove useful." Accessing," Kat said in her distracted, I'm-deep-in-the-data voice."We've got company," Kat called a few minutes later."What kind of. When the new boat was about 50 ft to their side, the operator cut the engine and allowed the boat to drift while a female voice carried across the water. “Ahoy there” the girl said, “Do you mind if we drop anchor and share your cove tonight?”The female on the other boat held a bright hand-held spotlight, which was still illuminated, but aimed away from the Pontoon Boat so as to not blind the inhabitants. Kayla could see the girl but not very well in the reflected light within the cockpit. .