Far From Home

Chapter Twelve

(Hello everybody!! I thought I'd updated chapter 11 ages ago but it turned out I hadn't and I'm sorry everybody but now you've got two chapters :) Writings very slow for me so please bare with me and don't expect any schedule to my updates :/ Thank you to everyone who continues to read)

"Adira thank you for meeting us here, I'm glad that you're early it means we have more time. Please take a seat." Professor Goswami said greeting me at the door. I looked around at a group of faces, Mochrie and Zachariah were both sitting down while Mia and Dmitry were still missing, I saw some scientists and funders from my first meeting and Tanner, sitting like the king shit. He gave me a sleazy wink which I rolled my eyes in response. I walked up to the table when Toulouse Fairly, the attractive Middle Eastern funder pulled a chair out beside me. "Hello Ms Adira, how has settling in been for you?" Toulouse said charmingly, I felt my face becoming hot and Mochrie's eyes on me. "It's been rocky, but fine so far. Why are you all here today for this meeting?" I said, he smiled and nodded looking around at the other funders and scientists. "You were told it was just going to be a meeting about what you'll be doing over the next two years, but the others and I had some concerns we wanted to ask Goswami." I nodded and was about to continue the conversation when Mia and Dmitry burst into the room, the door making a large bang against the wall behind it. "Sorry, sorry we're late. We were just...uh" Mia said, gradually losing the speed in her words as she tried to think something up to cover the reason they were late. Professor Goswami walked in front of them facing the table hiding the two of them and the curious musty smell that had come with them. "Right, why don't we get down to business?" Professor Goswami said with a forced smile.

"Greetings benefactors and colleagues," Professor Goswami said nodding at all of us, "if you'd all like to take out your recording devices to get the details out of this meeting today." Around me everybody was pulling out pens or tablets or recorders, I patted my pockets down and sighed, of course I'd forgotten my pen or any to write with. I then felt a long object slide underneath my hand, I looked down to see the most ridiculous gold and diamond studded pen. I looked over to Toulouse to see him wink at me; I hoped my grimace passed as a kind smile. I turned my attention to Professor Goswami as she waited for everyone to get sorted and finish getting all of their things out. "Right, we have now all of our workers have finished with settling in and the children are now familiar with their surroundings." I looked up to see Zachariah looking disgruntled mouthing 'children?' To Mochrie, "we are also almost finished with the ship with only the smallest details needing to be finished, meaning the children will be able to start learning with the ship sooner than we thought." Pr. Goswami said, I was intrigued by what she meant when she said ship and I hoped that as she proceeded she would indulge more details about this ship.

"I want to talk to all of you about what we will be showing in the children's learning procedures and what they'll be doing for the next year. I'll start with the easier programs and later with the more specific ones...which really means I'm leaving Adira's program until last. Well let us start with Mia Kikuchi, budding aeronautics expert we'll start her off with learning how to fly the new ship and then she can divert her knowledge onto Adira and teach her how to fly the ship too. We also want her knowledge on aircraft to be used as an expert review on the ships driving and that will pair in with Mr Zachariah Wadley. Our Mr Zachariah Wadley having the brightest mind of his entire year along with peak physical health was ultimately the most perfect candidate for our head of ship mechanics and the other technology on it, Mr Wadley was also considered for the main part of this mission but failed certain aspects." I was surprised that Zachariah was considered for my role and I wondered what he had that I did not. "Mr Dmitry Nikolas was the top of his communications class with flying colours in every part of the subject. He's perfect for training in communication and will be the one who keeps contact with Adira when she is in space. Mr Mochrie Diya has the workings to be a top astrophysicist and will be taught every piece of knowledge he can be taught on space, he will be Adira and everyone else's advisor due to great leadership skills. Adira will be given extensive training for expanding her mind, body and mental capacity and will then be taught under every other participant in our mission. This will all take course over the next two years and has been scheduled perfectly to be maintained in this time period. Thank you for listening so diligently, now are there any questions?"

There were a lot of questions actually, including some of my own. Though I wasn't the first to be able to ask any, Wesley Rabinovich with her deep booming voice muted any other contesting questioner in the room. "Who will be teaching the children? Where will you be getting the equipment mean to teach them?" Wesley asked, a few others at the table where nodding as well, "well Wesley some equipment we already have here, other equipment will be bought on the black market with the funds you have all donated to us. All the scientists you see here will be teaching the children and the children will also be collaborating with one another and will teach one another, though mainly they will be teaching Adira." Professor Goswami answered, there was a bit of restlessness as Professor Goswami said the last bit, "Professor Goswami, why are these children's potential being wasted on just teaching one other girl?" Tanner asked, he looked at me pointedly one eyebrow suspended halfway up his forehead. Professor Goswami smiled sweetly looking at the both of us, "oh well Mr Tanner you must of not truly comprehended what I was saying or maybe I should have elaborated a bit more but teaching the children isn't just for Adira's benefit it's for their own as well. This is a career that they are going to have for a very long time, it's the only career they're going to start and end with."