"Raul told us to drive directly to the transport terminal and don"t stop anywhere along the way. He was adamant about that."
"I know, Easton, but I can"t leave without my grandmother’s antique box. It"s almost four hundred years old and has been in my family ever since you and…" Rollie caught himself before saying that the box had been in the family since Easton and Sally Hemings were lovers in colonial America. "I have to get the box, Easton. I don"t care what Raul said."
Easton fell silent, a hard look of concentration on his face. Something was going through his mind and it came out when he said, "Is that the box with the carved ‘H’ on the lid?"
Rollie was stunned and let the hover vehicle wander outside the lane markers. This was the first time Easton had verbalized any memories fro
