“So, how did it go?” Mei Lee asked her husband telepathically.
“About what I expected,” Murdock responded. He had contacted Mei Lee when he reached a point downriver from the current pod site.
“That bad, huh?”
Murdock communicated to Mei Lee all that had happened when he tried to get someone to get Declan so he could talk to him.
“You know me. I don’t tolerate being shoved, pushed, or grabbed. I just react.” he explained.
“Add to that, your people skills are sadly lacking,” Mei Lee chided.
“I know,” Murdock replied. “I keep hoping that some of the people I meet would show a little more respect. You’d think they would realize that I have survived here for five years and they have just arrived and know nothing.”
“But they are coming from Earth and their last memories were of a place w
