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The background images are: Northwest Escarpment Llano Estacado by Leaflet and Cove Mountain Trail tn4 by Brian Stansberry, both are covered by the Creative Commons rights. The trimming, manipulation, and adding of text is by Ernest Bywater. All rights to the cover image are reserved by the copyright owners.

23 February 2022 version

Note: US English is used in this story as it’s set in the USA with US characters.

Images

Drawing of the garage at Missionary Ridge

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Chapter 01: CyberFun
Chapter 02: Tricky Trip
Chapter 03: Talk Time
Chapter 04: Family Furor
Chapter 05: Revelations
Chapter 06: Meetings
Chapter 07: Arrangements
Chapter 08: Sunday Afternoon
Chapter 09: Night of News
Chapter 10: Life is Change
Chapter 11: Surprises
Chapter 12: People and Plans
Chapter 13: Packing to go
Chapter 14: Doing Business
Chapter 15: The Viewing
Chapter 16: Wednesday Morn
Chapter 17: Planning
Chapter 18: The Funeral and Afterwards
Chapter 19: Discussions
Chapter 20: Thursday Morning
Chapter 21: Story Time
Chapter 22: Nest Making
Chapter 23: Communications
Chapter 24: Surprises
Chapter 25: History Lesson
Chapter 26: Recruiting
Chapter 27: News a Plenty
Chapter 28: New Business
Chapter 29: The New Boss
Chapter 30: Union Rules?
Chapter 31: Crossroads
Chapter 32: Shiloh
Chapter 33: Deadly Finds
Chapter 34: Mice and Men
Chapter 35: Good Business
Chapter 36: Not so Soft
Chapter 37: War Preparations
Chapter 38: Key Base
Chapter 39: Important Events
Chapter 40: Mercenary Mayhem
Chapter 41: Clan Clean-up
Chapter 42: Final Conflict
Chapter 43: Interesting Times
Chapter 44: Tidying Up

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