" Well, you'd think he'd never seen a girl's breasts before! And does he have to do that sitting right next to me?"I couldn't tell if she was angry or...embarrassed or what. "Maybe he hasn't. Even for someone my age, teen age girls can have a tremendous effect. You have no idea how attractive you can be." Yeah, right! That's me, Miss Movie Star in a red bikini," she responded sarcastically, not wanting to admit to us or to herself that she might be the slightest bit attractive in her own. " Can't, or won't?" the guy asked, still shoving the stack of mixed Earth and New Earth credit notes toward him."Can't." the bartender looked him square in the eye for the first time. "Those two show up, have a drink or two, then I don't see them for months or years at a time. God knows where they hang out, but it ain't here." But damnit, I need to talk to them!" the guy did look desperate. "I mean, shit! I've been all over Human space, an' damn near everybody's seen 'em, but nobody knows how. And pay for the trip. Sorted, Charlotte thought to herself. She was woken up at five o’clock the next morning by shouts and bangs outside. She looked out her bedroom window and watched as soldiers kicked down the door of a house further down the street. Everywhere was swarming with soldiers and more jumped out of the Landrovers to guard the search party. The soldiers who had entered the house came out a few minutes later, dragging a middle-aged man between them. The man was wearing only a vest. ”“Alright, Sir. Thank you.”“There is a serve-Matic integrated into that seat group. Why don’t you have a drink or a snack, while I contact the planet council? I have some influence here.”Roy nodded. “Alright, Sir.”The old man left the room.Roy felt as if he was sitting on a nest of Dragon Ants. Part of him simply wanted to run outside, steal a skimmer or something, but this ancient old man who turned out to be family. He was stiff as a Trapper Palm showed no real emotions.He had crossed half.