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“Jill!” Mylea stormed into the dining room at her parent’s home the day after Lamile gone missing. Jill was eating lunch with her step mother and grandmother.
She looked up to see the nearly six foot six furious thonian woman. “Yes?”
“Did you know about this?” Mylea asked.
“Know about what?” Jill flinched in surprised at her aunt’s tone of voice.
“Lamile has gone missing.” Mylea said.
“Missing?” Jill asked, “What do you mean missing?”
“Yesterday,” Mylea said, “Lamile managed to get a ride with one of the convoys heading out of Fletcher. She left me a note saying that she was going to be home in a while and hoped to solve the abandoned children problem. Did you know she was going to this?”
“No! We were supposed to go with Lady Hawthorn to the Trenaport Boarding School today, where a lot of the kids are being taken.” Jill answered trying to cool out a bit. She was getting angry at Lamile for doing what she did without talking to her.
“Jill what do you know about this?” Lisa asked.
“We were talking about sending someone out among the kids to see what is going on with them but; Lady Hawthorne had someone in mind. That wasn’t Lamile!” She added quickly, “A Mounty who could pass as a teenager. No, I don’t know what she is up to.”
“What is the mission Jill,” Mylea asked, “This was something that Delores was to brief us on tomorrow.”
“We were hoping to send someone to be the Pied Piper to bring these kids in. We thought they might follow a kid to the port or into Trenaport for processing.” Jill replied. Mylea was still furious; but she could see why her daughter might chase something like this. It was not the drama. In fact, Lamile always found a way to make things happen without a lot of drama. If Lamile thought she could help these kids without a lot of fuss it was something she might do. “Aunt Mylea, just leave me enough flesh so I can have my pound too. I wish I would have been given the opportunity to talk her out of it. This is too dangerous for me! Jenny told me that she would lock me up if I even thought about doing what Lamile is doing. She suggested that it was really dangerous and since she lived on the streets for a while when she was my age she convinced me.”
“I get the feeling that you may have to stand in line.” Lisa said, “After Mylea gets done with her, then it’ll be my turn, then your father’s turn.”
“They grow up fast don’t they Commander,” Joyce said using Mylea former Thonian Space Service grade. Then pointed to Jill she said, “This one did big time!”
“I know,” Mylea said, “it’s hard to see them grow up.”
“It is at that,” Joyce confirmed seeing her grand-daughter not as a child; but a young adult. It had taken Jill running away and seeing her on Trena and how much the girl had matured for her to realize it..
“Any idea when she’ll be back?” Lisa asked.
“Mom we couldn’t figure out how long it would take.” Jill answered, “There were too many variables. We expected it might take maybe a month to get the first group in. We just couldn’t figure it out.”
“If there is any news I let you know.” Mylea said, “I got to get back.”
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