Thistledown approached his mate. Rose sat on her chair in a blue funk. He asked, "What's wrong?" She looked at him with an unreadable look. "I'm SO ANGRY! Humiliated and embarrassed,too. I shouldn't have been arrested! Protesting the public's treatment of Toxic shouldn't have resulted in arrests! We weren't causing a problem. That makes me angry. Being put in a lock-up and going through the whole finger-printing, body-scan and being deprived of freedom for something so minor is stupid and wasteful. Wasting TWELVE HOURS of my life in bureaucratic paper-pushing was torture!" "THEN being bailed out by a bondsman because I might be a flight risk? I want to PUNCH SOMETHING!" Rose ended up shouting in anger at Thistledown. He flinched. He couldn't help it. Rose fell silent and scanned the shocked reactions of Sunshine and Violet. Sunshine looked like she might cry out of fear. She sighed. "I guess that seems out of character for me. I get angry too. I just needed to vent. Sorry, Sunny. Everyone." Sunny grabbed her mother's leg and said, "Don't feel bad. You're with us here and now. It's alright. I get mad,too. It's alright." Rose knelt and hugged her little girl fiercely and tried not to cry. She couldn't even say why tears came to eye. She felt Violet rub her shoulders and say, "Wow. never thought my mom would get so mad at humans! You haven't become one of the 'Kill all the Humans' party, have you?" Rose took a long time in answering, "No. NO! I just understand the emotions of it a lot better today." Thistledown said, "Well, 'Miss Flight Risk' why don't we fly around Shalmiraine some? Sunny floated on her for almost ten second earlier and Violet flew into a wall an hour ago...we should practice some..." Rose stood up and looked askance at Violet and asked,"INTO A WALL? What were you thinking?" Violet shrugged and said, "DAD! That..this is embarrassing. I was doing a system check on my new equipment... and got playing around...stuff happened." Violet saw the look of fear and anger on Rose's face and felt deep shame. "Yeah. Just like Omega did. I only hurt myself. I'm sorry for reminding you of your greatest pain." "He was a baby. He didn't know what he was doing when he almost killed Lime and broke Sunny's arm. Some flying practice WOULD be a good thing. The Relative-Inertial-Frame generators in us ARE very dangerous. Thistledown--manage Violet, I'll keep my little trouble-maker under control. Violet, sned the snippet of memory to Sunshine, so she'll know what NOT to do, and we'll take off." Violet sighed and gave Sunny a snippet of her memory of what she did, complete with the pain of slamming into a steel way. Rose blinked and Sunny said, "OW! Wow, you really hurt yourself! Your face isn't flat. Did you nose grow back?" Violet made a face and sighed,"YES! It grew back! Let's go!" Thistledown said to Violet, "Quit fiddling with you crystal frequencies! Just set them to perfect harmony and leave it at that! That will give you almost eighty percent efficiency. Once you learn the basics, then fiddle with the non-harmonic frequencies to get greater effect." "Dad! I am NOT a little girl!" He smiled, "You're still growing, even if of adult age! Mind your elders!" Sunny bounced eagerly, "Can we go?" She bounced her head off the ceiling, where Rose grabbed her ankle. "We better go before our children leave us behind!" They flew out of the Abba-Dingo freight locks onto the west facing of the huge mega-structure. They flew for several minutes when Violet said, "HEY! Hey, Dad!? A little help." Sunny pointed and laughed, "Basics! Basics! Fiddling detected!" Thistledown reached down and grabbed Violet's hand. "Yeah---'fiddling detected' indeed! You fied just collapsed. When the efficiency falls below a certain level...down you go! I think Instructor Sunshine said...?" Violet glared at her little sister and stuck out her tongue. --To be Continued!--