" Sure, Wednesday?" Wednesday is perfect. Do you like Paella?" I'm not sure. What is it?"I found a description of Paella on Wikipedia and sent it to ...im."Looks delicious! Mind if we text later?" Sure" TTYL!" Bye!"Wednesday seemed like such a long time away. At least I would have timeto get the stuff for my Paella dish.I blocked off my afternoon on Wednesday. Made an excuse that I had adoctor's appointment. Hopefully, I could get off early enough to gethome and get everything ready.Late in. “We’d been getting intelligence reports that the Victrix Imperita was heading down the Chain. Past a certain point, you run out of planets worth visiting. Hell, Stumble’s actually the nicest planet in this part of the Chain.”“How!?” I squeaked.“Uh, humans are still alive on it,” she said. “The next two worlds up the chain are tombs. And not even ones you can raid. One’s glowing almost as hot as the sun, they set off so many nuclear bombs. The next’s got a biophage that turns most forms of Human. She was young, she was a nerd. A real nerd. A dungeons and dragons playing, computer using, glasses wearing nerd with a huge library of fantasy and sci - fi books that she was always reading. She was also a big girl, five ten and one hundred forty five pounds, solidly muscled and toned (I have pictures). She was also a martial artist. In fact we met when she visited my martial arts school. She was sexually aggressive but lacked experience, however she was an eager student. As we sat in a church. Without a word, Hayley pulled away, and began running back the way she came, confused and disoriented, but desperate to get back home. Just as she broke into a sprint, she slammed into an enormous shirtless man who seized her by the hair. "Don't you want to play with Kendra again?" he asked patronizingly. "You enjoyed it so much last night." He hauled her back to the grooming table and jerked her up onto it. ?"Silly bitch," Kendra cooed. She struck Hayley across the face. "Hold her there, Ryan,.