„I will NEVER – EVER! – drink again", Brett swore, his face green while he was leaning over the railing. During the flight, he had barely spoken while Vanessa and Lena constantly apologized for leaving Brett out of their sight for one minute.

Brett had stumbled into their room last night, wasted to the core, held on his feet by a hardly less drunk Mike. He had spent the night over the toilet seat, Jason sitting next to him.

Now he felt tired and annoyed. Neri had slept with Mera while he had been stuck with a constantly vomiting Brett – not exactly the night he wished for.

"I hope that teaches you a lesson", he told Brett.

"Easy for you to say", his little brother replied. "You have a girlfriend who can take away your jag with one touch!"

"I had no jag. I was just feeling a little dizzy but fair enough – ", Jason looked at Neri who watched Brett pitiful. "Something you can do?"

Neri smiled. "I can try but how will you learn?"

Brett moaned. "Don't be like that!"

Jason grinned. "I had no idea of that sadistic side of yours."

"Please!" Brett begged. Jason and Neri exchanged a glance and Neri put her hand on Brett's forehead. The relief was immediately seen in his expression.

"Jason," Lena said as she approached them, putting her phone away. "This was my dad. About Bones … Turns out, she is Kellar's grand-niece!"

"I remember that horrible woman," Mera commented. "She was cruel. She would have let you die."

"Yes, and she was not very happy about Dad not letting me. Dad made sure that she had to leave UBRI before he resigned. Otherwise, she would have been the next director."

"I left shortly after that," Mera said. "What happened to Earth after? The people must have noticed the almost-apocalypse!"

"One third of the world was asleep," Froggy explained, "and in other parts, heavy storms and earthquakes are very common. Many people had to deal with their own problems and didn't notice the weird sky. Also, it was just a matter of minutes when the sky changed back. Some maybe just thought about it as a weird dream or a hallucination."

"At this time, there was a severe hurricane over Florida," Cass added. "This season had been one of the worst in recent years. The rather strange thing was how fast it settled down."

"Of course, a lot of people later talked," Froggy went on, "and posted on the internet about the Red Sky Event – how they called it. Scientists explained it with a heavy solar flare."

"A solar flare?" Jason repeated. "One look at their instruments must have told them otherwise."

Froggy shrugged. "The radiation throughout the atmosphere seemed similar. It fried many electronic devices globally. Case closed."

"Did anyone relate the Red Sky Event to the Red Virus?" Lena wanted to know.

Froggy grimaced. "Guess who?"

"Akio Tenjou," Jason replied. "And if he's teaming up with Bones …"

"With a bit of luck, she won't come far," Anja said. "The security personnel on every airport, harbor and train station are highly alerted right now. I think she is still in Australia."

"It's not so much her location that bothers me," Froggy answered, his jaw tight. "We know her destination but we don't know anything about her motives. Tenjou is an idealist. He worships people like Edward Snowden and Tess Grimestone who fought for data transparency and free press. He wants people to know. But Bones besides her being a talented hacker is a complete unknown."

"Was there anything in her files?" Jason asked Lena who shook her head.

"No. She was a quiet person. Kept to herself most of the time."

"Brett?"

His little brother was still a little pale, clinging to the railing. "We didn't really talk much …," he murmured.

Cass rolled her eyes but grinned.

"I tried to apply a modified version of my query to seek information about her in the social media," Froggy said. "But there are 83 people with that name in the world and I'm still trying to nail it down."

"Anything we can help you with?" Lena asked.

Froggy shook his head. "Her relation to Kellar might help. As soon as we arrive on ORCA, I will tell De Souza about it. Maybe we can get to know Amelia through her family."

"I have bad feeling," Neri said quietly. "We need to know soon."