Chapter 66

“The heads? What heads?”

“You went to school in the States,” said Junior ... and it WAS NOT a question.

“Well, yeah ... we all did,” said the seven scientists.

“American schools suck,” Junior said. “I’m so glad I was home schooled.”

“Me too,” I said. “Except I saw the heads ... I think it was the second time around. Those years are kinda jumbled.

“Six?”

“Yes, Surprise?”

“Which crossing was Easter Island? Was it the first or the second?”

“Ask your watch.”

“It knows? You sure? Cin didn’t get the watch until the last go round.”

“What?” said Mary.

“It came in the mail ... with Dad’s ring.”

“In the mail?” commented Four.

“You didn’t send it?”

“Umh ... we don’t do that. In the mail?” questioned Six.

“Maybe it was UPS. Hold on. I’ll call JW.”

Along with the best and most recent in electronics Basilisk has the Inmarsat IsatPhone 2 Satellite Phone, maritime model, and the Inmarsat prepaid card. (The card was a great idea. Sat phones are in the range of three dollars a minute. The Inmarsat card was two bucks.)

“You do know that the FED A records every Sat phone conversation,” Mary said.

And Six said, “Surprise? They know about Juniors watch. Are you sure you want them to know about yours?”

“And Dad’s ring.” I said.

“JW has his Dad’s ring?” said Mary.

“I said so ... Same day.” I said, “And his journals.”

“Mary ... as much as you’d like to go ... you can’t,” I said.

“Who said I was leaving?”

“I saw the panic in your eyes,” I said. “I read the journals. You guys had too much fun on Chaos.”

“Yes, we did ... but it stinks,” she said.

“How bad could it be?” I asked.

“Ever smell a tannery?”

“That bad?”

“Worse ... how about a hot dog factory?”

“Oh god.”

“Combine the two ... add a little sewage treatment and a pig lot.”

“Oh god.”

“Yeah ... like that.”