Jim and Aisha were heading back to the mansion. As they walked past the lake, Jim glanced over his shoulder to see that Connie and Paige had gone, leaving no trace of their presence there.

"I wonder where they've gone?" Jim said out of curiosity. He thought that Connie, at least, would've waited for him.

"They've probably gone back to the mansion, as I said, its nearly dinner." Aisha didnt think much of it; Paige would have known it was dinner and so headed back and Aisha still disliked Connie, so she was the least of Aisha's concerns.

"Yeah, I just thought they may have waited for us, thats all."

"Nah, Paige must be in one of those hyper moods again. Connie must've just follwed her back"

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John still hadn't touched his food and Yolanda was beginning to grow impatient.

"Alright then, starve if you want. I'm gonna go run a few maintenance checks and continue the repairs I was performing before you stumbled into me." Yolanda had gotten up, still keeping her eye on John, who remained silent. John didnt make a noise until Yolanda had left the room, he let out a big sigh. 'Maybe she doesnt eat terrans after all. Come to think of it, I am quite hungry, one bite couldnt hurt.' John got stuck in and managed to finish the meal in less than a minute. 'I guess I was pretty hungry', John let out a laugh and then calmed himself. He didnt want to make too much noise incase it attracted a Ctarl-Ctarl.

'Crazy kid' Yolanda thought to herself, she understood why he was afraid of Ctatl-Ctarl...but even one as remorseful as herself?? Either way, she wasnt going to trouble herself with trivial matters such as that, she had more important things to worry about.

John took this opportunity while Yolanda was gone, to have a look around. Mind you, he didnt want to look to far, else a Ctarl-Ctarl might find him and eat him. The room he was in must be Yolanda's quarters. It had a small kitchen set aside by the entrance, an ensuite style bathroom (that was abnormally large) and the main living room which had a table with two chairs, that John was currently sitting at, a Television and bookcase in one corner, a sofa on one edge of the room and a bed in another corner. It was quite cosy, the decoration was very plain and uninspiring but had been livened up a bit with a painting of some sort of Ctarl-Ctarl flowers and a couple of posters. One of the posters was of a rock band of some type, the other was of a TV programme, some sort of anime. Back at the orphanage, John didnt get to watch much TV but occasionally he would see the guards watching it in their break room and he would catch glimpses of various programmes, one of which was an anime. John thought he'd check out the bathroom. It was quite large, more or less normal...until he saw the toilet. It was massive. If John had sat on it, he would have fallen through.'This must be where they...' Johns thought shifted towards the eating and disposing of terrans and he suddenly felt sick. He stumbled around, crashed into the sink, lost his grip and fell to the floor. Knocked unconsious.


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"Come on Connie, this way!" Paige said to a slightly confused Connie.

"Oh right, I could've sworn it was that way." Connie and Paige had gone back to the mansion shortly after Aisha had arrived at the lake. "What about Jim and Aisha? I still think we should have waited for them." Connie asked Paige.

"They'll be fine. I'm sure Aisha has sorted out Millie, she looked pretty angry after I told her that Jim and Millie were over at the other side of the wharf. She must've known what Millie planned to do to Jim."

Just the thought of it all, made Connie shiver, she had grown to like Jim over the last few days...well, maybe more than like. "Ok, what ever you say. I guess you know Aisha best."

"Well actually...I dont. You see, Aisha is quite a bit older than me. By the time I was old enough to have anything to do with her, she was shot out into space as her roll of officer. I guess you probably know all about how, if you pass with honours at university, you instantly get the roll of officer in the Ctarl-Ctarl millitary which, dont get me wrong, she was thrilled about and I was happy for her. But I was also kind of sad, you see I was just starting to get to know my big sister. You may have already realised, she is quite childish. So me and her, despite our age differences, got along quite well. And then she was gone. This is actually the first time I have seen her for a while. She hasn't changed much. But I have. Somehow, I think I may have, in a way, outgrown her. I dont know though, I havn't even seen much of her so far on her sudden unexpected visit."

"Thats a shame. I wouldn't know though, I'm an only child. I've never had an older or younger sister or brother. At some times, I wish I did have. At others though, I quite like it."

"You've got no siblings, and I've got plenty. Want to borrow some of mine?" Connie and Paige share a laugh before arriving at the mansion.

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Jim and Aisha were preparing the scooters for use. The actual scooters were rather new. When Jim had asked Aisha why they were bought, she'd said 'Clanclan's such as myself shouldn't have to walk around the grounds' which pretty much summed up their purpose. Jim had no problem getting his going, but Aisha was having some trouble. All Jim could hear was the noise of Aisha kicking it as well as some incohearant cursing.

"Are you alright, Aisha?"

"Yeah I'm fine" Aisha spat out in between an asortment of curses.

"You seem to be having a bit of trouble. Here, let me help." Jim walked cautiosly over to Aisha and her stubborn air scooter, he didnt want Aisha to take out her anger with the scooter on him.

"I'm fine Jim, I dont need any..." her words were cut off by the now roaring engine. "But...What...How d'you...Jim, you're a genious!"

"Oh it was nothing really, someone had over-reved it and been running it at top speed for too long and it had caused a small leakage."

"Oh right...yeah...I wonder who that was" Aisha said guiltily, even though she'd done it for the sake of Jim. She didnt want to tell him. "Well, we better get going. Dont want to be late for dinner." Aisha and Jim got on their scooters and roared, well..kind of, off towards the mansion.

When they got back, they could see that Connie and Paige had gotten back safely as both their scooters were parked over by the pool house. Jim let out a big sigh of relief. "What are you sighing for Jimmy?" Aisha said "Oh, no reason" Jim said, although that was a lie. Before either of them could say anything, a bell chimed. "Thats the bell for dinner. Come on lets go Jim!" Aisha sounded exited, she must've been hungry as well. 'Phew, saved by the bell' Jim thought to himself. He didnt want Aisha to know that Jim had taken a liking to Connie, because he knew that Aisha would'nt be pleased.