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It was small, charmingly quaint, and heads above the majority of accommodations he usually had on a research jaunt. He knew a lot of people thought he was a man more suited to a dark and dusty library. He often was, but he was just as much at home in a tent in the jungle, so long as he had enough battery power for his equipment.
Satisfied with his living arrangements, he headed outside to unload the Rover.
On his second trip he stopped to watch the sheriff’s cruiser pull up, and Ripley climb out.
“Deputy Todd.”
“Dr. Booke.” She was feeling vaguely guilty about giving him a hard time on their first encounter. Which she wouldn’t have felt, she thought resentfully, if Nell hadn’t scolded her about it. “You’ve got a lot of stuff here.”
“Oh, this is only part of it. I’ve got more being sent it tomorrow.”
Nosy by nature, she looked in the back of the Rover. “More than this?”
“Yeah. Lots of neat stuff.”
She turned her head. “Neat?”
“Lots of it. Sensors, scanners and gauges and cameras and computers. Cool toys.”
He looked so pleased with the idea that she didn ... read full excerpt from Heaven and Earth ebook
