Chapter 17
The Martian Assembly was meeting again on vid. My grandmother invited Dar and I to watch. She keeps including me in these things; I am starting to think she was serious about me moving to Mars. The Martian Palace was still on lockdown. Gaston met us at the main entrance and escorted us down to Central Command’s bunker control room. We went in the main door this time. The room was extremely busy with technicians and Martian Navy personnel running in all directions attending to tasks. Amalie stood in the center of the room watching the ship plot screens and images from the satellites.
“Grandmother? You sent for us?”
“Athena, good. Dar thank you for coming. Our scans show that the Earth ship should be within view at any moment. I thought you might like a firsthand view of thing
