Roll    hustled over      he told HAley to come  along. His little  legs  trying desperatly to  run which Holding his  back pack to his  chest.

  ..This  is  Haley.. you 'member her?...  Her Mom flies the  big people   ships...'shuttles?".. she helped me to day?... I broke a  crayon.. he looked   sad, then brightened,..But   no one Hit  Me!

 Lifter  came  runnign  by   and gave him a pat on the  back and waved to   Haley as Lifter  ran to her  new home.

Haley skipped along and played, helping Roll with school and playing.  Just having fun.  After school Haley tagged with Roll until  Toni would join.  "Hi.  We had lots of fun.  we also learned some numbers.  and our left and rights. " she held her arms out and watched Roll do af well and hold up fingers in L shapes "The one that looks like an L is left.  the other is the right"  soon Toni appeared "Okay I gotta go.  Toni gets to watch me for a bit.  We're gonna fo help on the farms"

Viktor gave a nod and smile to Haley, “Of course, nice to see you Haley. Your mom and I had training together earlier in fact. Thank you very much for being a friend to Roll, today. Take care of yourself.”

He then regarded Roll, inwardly sad that Roll was happy about not being physically struck but he smiled none-the-less, “Well, no one will be hitting you here. If anyone does you tell your mother and I. That’s not acceptable ok?”As he spoke, he took hold of Roll’s bag, sitting it on the table to help the boy. “I’m happy that you had a good first day. Do you have homework?.”

 They waved to HAley....

 ... Roll looked up.....no..i guess not..  the helper teacher  said  for me  to practice   shapes?... I  KNow a circle.. I know a  square?..the  rest..i get mixed up.... She liked the way I did Vid boards    though

Viktor poked a hole in the juice box with the straw and sat it down in front of Roll, “That’s wonderful, Roll, about the vidboard. Maybe you’re a future computer scientist or an engineer to make better vidboards. If you’d like tonight we can go over the shapes. I think it might be helpful if you drew them, if you can draw a shape you can remember it’s name easy.”

  he  siped   from the  Juic e and smiled,  we  can do that.....it  might be  fun.... then i can surprise the treachers  how smart i am...

 ..I heard some Kids  talking   at  play time?.. they said   we might stop  at  Bura ..they say  its  really really  green there.. even the people!

“You are very smart, son, smarter than I was at your age,” Viktor said sincerely. “Say, do you want to take your juice box and walk down to the rec dec? Get a small ice cream cone? As a first day treat? Or would rather sit here and play vidboard?

   Roll   gave  a shrug  as she   was finishing his Juice. we can go to the Rec Dec.. if  you  have  creds?.... Stall people don't like   people with no  creds... On Etna  they would throw things at us.... 'cept one LAdy..she was Nice.. her   Dad  didn't like us..i think he was her dad..he was older  then her  by bunches.... any way  she would throw  a back of Rolls  or a Loaf  of bread.. and  we would    catch it  and run.

 he  looked aorund,..they must like poor  people here.. I never  see  any one gettign food thrown at them

Orria finished her assignments and asked the teacher, "Miss, why do we learn about history? Its already done, and can I do the new modules now?"

 The teacher   said   well... its like a dog?  YUou see a Dog.. you know   it  can  bite..or  be  freindly?.. but if you don't know  why... you can get bit? Also..people should know  about  brave folks who fought bad  folks..or brave people  that explored places... so that you know  who they are  and what they did...

 She smiles, Maybe?  some little  Girl   will read  about Orria , some day...

Viktor chuckled deeply at Roll’s question, the boy was endearing in his earnestness, “Yes, I have creds. Your mother and I receive money from the military in exchange for serving.” Viktor packed up, picking up the cooler, and slinging his backpack on one shoulder with Roll’s pack on the other side leaving the young one to carry only his vidboard and his juice box. “People are treated better here, Roll. You grew up in a mean society, Mortica and I will make sure that does not happen to you again.”

As they walked towards the rec dec, Viktor asked, “So tell me, what do you want to see on Bura?”

   Roll loked   up as the  walked  , sipping  from his    Juice, Score   was entering his   house  and  waved   at  them.  Roll waved back.

 ..I want to see  Green?   we  some patches of Green.... we saw Blue  of the seas?.. Never seen a whole bunch of Green... I see some of those  shorter humans  who ar Green..and those  Green Angels.. but.. i wanna  see lots of green..... bushes  and  lots and lots of trees... I don't  even know if they have that many trees  to grow  out there.

“I do not know how many trees they have on Bura. But if you want to see them then when we get there we’ll go on a picnic in the forest. To tell you the truth, Roll, I’ve not seen many worlds even in my long life. At least not up close. Besides my homeworld- I spent much of my life in space in ships as part of fleets. The only time I saw foreign lands was when I was flying above them. It will be nice to see them up close with my family.” Viktor looked down, returning Roll’s glance. It was remarkable, not long ago he didn’t know Roll existed, now he would do anything to see him have a good life, to be safe.

In reply to Orria (msg # 12):

Orria followed along the best she could. "We learn about history because it is remembering that things hurt, and that people did good and bad things?" She asks paraphrasing in her own way.

As the day ends she walks herself home, as the distance is short and all of the other kids and their parents are about. In her hand she has the Occui level #2 language module.

--Home-->

At her home she let herself in and Cookie out. The Lonnox was over joyed to see her and ran about excitedly before doing its business. Finding a nice bench across the street at the park she allowed Cookie to run about, and plugged in the disk to her vidboard to start learning the next level.

((  Civie  stores )) < Lizzt fro  Rec Dec.

 There were a   few  stroes along the   balcpny  that  went over the field to the   ramp way that lead  down to the   Civie ( and FArm) section.

 Abby looked  around, there  were shorts  and   tops  and sneakers  things , as well  as 'dress up'  for the  when  Civie s ha d   parties, or something on the Rec Dec. or the field , that pasted  for a   big party.

 Lizzy will look around at the dress up section for a dress that would show off her chest but also fit her small slim body.

 Lizzy will say, " Abby see anything good?" Lizzy kept looking at the dresses and then she will say to Abby, " Sorry you had to hear all that with my dad, as you could tell he doesn't want me here on the Hermes."

Lizzy will look at a couple of dresses, and hold them over her body and say," How does this look Abby it might be too low cut, I might show too much cleavage. Should I try it on?" Lizzy will laugh and smile and wait for Abby's reaction to the red dress she picked out.

 Abby  shrugs,..I  dunno?  I got me uniforms  an' one or  two outfits  from  FUJI..... Don't Know about Dressing up an' such....

 She looks at the Dress  and smiles   knowingly,..Depends on how  fast you wanna get laid , i guess.. the more you show..the faster  you'll go... Old ESN  sayin'..

 Lizzy will laugh at the more you show the quicker you get laid, Lizzy wil say," I use to dress up a lot going to fancy dinners with my Dad, that was a lot of fun."  Lizzy thought of the good times she had with her dad, she so wished he would except I am not  a little girl anymore and I want to fight and fly.

 Lizzy smiles and adds," Yes very true so then I guess I should show a lot then." She laughs even more and then adds, " I am going to try this one on okay give me your honest opinion okay Abby."

 Lizzy will find a fitting room and try on the red dress, it had spaghetti straps, it was very low cut showing a lot of cleavage and some of her bra, she would have to get a bra that was lower and covered less of her chest if she was going to wear this dress. It was curve hugging in all the right places and it was about 2" above the knee, short but not too short.

 Once dressed Lizzy would come out in the sexy red dress. " So how do I look Abby?"

  Abby shakes her  head,..you wouldn't have to b uy any drinks  on Fuji..that's for sure.. don't know what the Blokes  are like  here  yet...

 Lizzy smiles and says," So it looks good, shows off everything well. Would be nice not to buy drinks anymore." Lizzy laughs and then says, " I might get it, just need to check the price."

 Lizzy would then smile and head back to the fitting room and change out of the amazing sexy dress, she will then look at the price, she hoped it wasn't too expensive she really liked this dress.

 Lizzy checked the price, Lizzy saw 100 creds, Lizzy thought about it for a second and decided yes it is worth it , about a month of free drinks would pay for it. She laughed to herself and then she finished getting back into her duty uniform.

 She would then head out of the fitting room and then go pay for the dress and head back to Abby. " I got it only 100 credits not bad for a sexy dress like that. You find anything?"

  Abby  shakes her head,there was  some   things  that were nice?..  I'll wait a bit , Till i  wear my stuff  i have from Fuji...no one has  seen thos e yet... I can't believe  we  have to go on another  Run.. that's three  in three days.. I don't think i can make it the bwhole way around?>. Then You see that Lizard Dog thing  flyign around..and Shadows....um..kid?...  runnign.. its not like you can  say..'i quit'.. you'd  look like a fool!

Orria sat on the bench sounding out a new Occui word as the Lonnox raced around the park chasing everything that would run from it, a serious case of the zoomies. It started started chasing a younger child until Orria yelled at it, "COOKIE NO CHASING!" It paused to look appropriately apologetic and shamed, looking for forgiveness. Pulling a treat out of her bag she instructs it, "Play nice!" and gives it the treat. It sets off again terrorizing the small creatures of the park.

Lizzy smiles and says," Well maybe next time, yeah you want to try out those first Abby,thank you for coming with me."

 Lizzy will lead the store and head back to the Rec Dec. She will say,"Yeah this will be my second and a run like that hurts for sure. We will make it, and yeah that does make it hard to just quit."

 Lizzy will then head to the Rec Dec.

 Smithson was  waling   as he saw Orria. He stood  by the Bench...ok... now you make sure that thing  doesn't  bite anyone..or  we'll see if   Doc  Henry can use   it to feed  something in his  zoo...