the women of the village were busy the rest of the afternoon , preparing food and tending wounds . as night fell , bearl and marial walked among them as they sat in the center of the stockade . marial asked , '' what do you think those men were going to do with these people ? '' '' that i do not know , '' said
bearl

rocky kept an eye on the ship for the first couple of days , dillow preferring to let the computers do the boring bits , but she unashamedly '' hugged '' the ship . one or two of the youngsters joined her , trying to feel the ship the way dillow did . they even compared what they thought was going on with the
ship

at the main hole paul had just tossed the flashlights down to the men in the hole when he turned to becky and said . '' i think i 'm going over and check on otis . i love him like a father and i 'm really worried about him . '' '' i 'll go with you paul . you know i feel the same way about
otis