Family History

"After you finish looking through the journal and the History, you go invite Marna over for dinner tomorrow night." Grandma Gemma stated, then got up and moved towards the kitchen. Julien figured she was going to plan out the dinner already, to make sure she and the cook had everything they needed.

Julien looked to his brother, and just as he had figured he was already looking through the Family History.

"Most of the Earth ancestry is very unreliable. There really is no way of confirming any of that." James murmured.

"Well I don't doubt Grandpa." Julien answered,even though he knew James was really just speaking to himself.

"Oh, I don't doubt him." James said, a little defensively. "But his own father could have been making things up for him, and so on. I wonder if there's anyway we can confirm the Pandora history."

"According to the journals he had an approximate location on two of the vaults. Wasn't one of them a medical vault? Perhaps there's something in that for this, a...uh...BMH scanner?"

James smirked a bit, "DNA. Anyway, that would only really work if we had some DNA sample from someone from Earth. I think. I'm not sure of that and Grandpa's notes didn't even partially hint at how he would operate anything like that. It wold probably use much more power than we have, let alone we don't know the language it would be printed out in. If any of the stuff works at all. But I do think that would and should be the one we go after first. Use that one for seed money to go after the second, if it feels right. I think I'm only going to go after this one, and since Marna is at three months...I'd like to be here at least for the birth and maybe a week after."

"You love her don't you. I mean it wasn't just a fling." Julien said.

"It was never a fling with her. I've always loved the way she looked in yous sparring sessions."

"She was the reason you tried to learn swordplay?"

"Mostly. I also decided it would be a good idea to to know which end you hold."

"Swords were never for you."

"Hey, I can still out wrestle you."

"I'll grant you are hard to pin, but squirming to not be pinned is not going to win a fight." Julien countered, a smirk of his own. "Hell, for all my talent in duels and such I've not ever been in a fight to the ****. Which is why you're bringing Grandpa's Peacekeeper."

"His Peacekeeper? Oh...I'm not a good shot."

"With that thing you don't really need to be. All you have to do is think about it, think about yourself being armed with that...what's the correct term?"

"8 Gauge Shot gun. You realize there's only ten shells for it, right?"

"The point is, if push comes to shove...well you remember what that thing did to that tree in the woods when Grandpa decided to show us what that thing could do so we wouldn't touch it."

"Blew a hole through the Hardwood Tree in the forest. Clean through."

"And wood shrapnel out the back for ten feet. Anyhow, we're bringing it. Now, let's look at this history a little more."