River Prince walked in and exclaimed,"Is Thena! Is older man, brother?" The 'older man' looked up and smiled. "Pleased to meet you, River Prince! I'm Thena's older Brother, D Genjiro Aurora." River Prince blinked. "'D'?" "Dokka. Since I'm going to be assigned to..." He broke off as the Cyclops woman, Snowflake, teleported in. Snowflake looked over at Prince and said,"I need to teleport you up to the Nautilus. Yo,Thena! What's up?" Thena exclaimed,"Hey! It's Snowflake, Genjiro! Genjiro, this is Snowflake. She's Lime and Sunshine's sister." He bowed to her. "Pleased to meet you! We met Prince's older Brother just a few hours ago here. He called himself Wadi Amir. Weird outfit,too. If he's was from off-planet, he must be an extra-solar colonist because I didn't recognize his or his girlfriend's outfit." Thena nodded. "He looked just like Prince, except older! Prince! You never said you had an older brother!" Prince looked over from the glass rack of egg-rolls and said,"No? Have plenty of sisters and brothers! None human looking, though. That I knew of. One might have learned. Not close to any of them. Don't recognize 'Wadi Amir' name. Sorry. Mother said Toxic is older sister. That's ONE!" Thena frowned. "His friend looked just like Lime, except grown up." Snowflake got a weird chill feeling,"Wait a minute...did she have a big,wide hat? And him, some kind of cone hat?" Dokka Aurora said,"That's right. He wanted to ask me about my reassignment to the Nautilus. He was really nice and she was very lady-like. He bought us some chicken and got a bag for himself,too. He really seemed to love Pejite bar-be-que! They only hung around for about twenty minutes or so and just vanished. That was about two or three hours ago. I was having a party here because I just got a cyborg body after there was that big starship crash a couple of months ago. I hadn't told ANYONE about my reasignment, yet! I wonder how they knew?" Snowflake radioed up to the Nautilus,"Rose! I found out where the other two of the time-travellers went. They went here and talked with Thena's Brother Dokka. I'll link in with you." Snowy's voice altered slightly as Rose took over her voice box,"What did they say to you? This is important." He shrugged and he lapsed into an 'at ease' military rest, and said,"They commented that the crew was stressed out. They had suffered losses and might not be at their best and to take things easy and not to be to gruff with them. They're all messed up right now and taking a more laid back tack might profit me more. They seemed to know me right well. I'm usually a real disciplinarian, and that might not work so well on a ship of elite 'oddballs'. That kind of thing. Why?" Rose said through Snowy,"I might advise you to drop 'Dokka'. Our captain goes by Dokka." He nodded. "I was just telling Prince,here I go by D Genjiro Aurora, Lieutenant of the USCOMM Space marines. Just call me Genjiro. Oh! I look like Thena's father because I'm thity years older than her. My daughter was commander of the freighter that made first contact with the Rahkoshans four or five years ago. I and Thena were on flying city ONE, Refuge when Rose, your mother, shot it down. Just so you'll know." He cleared his throat. He then stuck out a hand towards Snowy. "No hard feelings. I know it was a state of war then and I want to move past that and get on with life." Snowy blinked and felt her aunt's surprise. Rose said through Snowy,"That is very enlightened. Thank you." Rose said over the radio to Snowy,"This is unexpected. See if he wants to come up to the ship." Snowy said in her own voice,"I'm sure another point of view might be helpful topside. I can teleport Price,You and Thena up if you'd like?" Thena jumped up and down,"Please,please,please?" He nodded,"Sure! Why not?" Prince came over with a bag full of eggrolls and nodded. Snowy had them join hands and teleported them away. --To be continued!--