It had been an exhausting and exhilarating few weeks since Peter made the Free People of Earth public. The most immediate troubles, of course, involved the territories he had eked out within the boundaries of other nations. Peru and Sudan had not declared war, but that was only because they had no one to declare war against: neither country ( Read more... )

All in all, their final goodbye was an anti-climactic affair. Peter had arrived in the morning to find the entire family acting as if little was wrong, going through its usual routines - except for the cow-eyes mother kept sending in Valentine's direction. Then, as the day continued, the atmosphere had gotten more fraught, heartfelt messages had ( Read more... )