I looked at him for just a few seconds and looked down again. ‘You are my wife’, he said and paused, and then he continued, ‘not a prostitute.�... I really didn’t know what he meant as my mind wasn’t working well. ‘When you don’t know what to say to your husband, keep your mouth shut’ came back my father’s voice. I obeyed him as usual. ‘If we sl**p together when we really don’t know each other, what different you would be from a prostitute? We will sl**p together someday, when both of us wants it,. She was still wearing her civilian pressure suit under the exoskeleton and the two men both exchanged glances and smiles. They told her to leave the light pressure suit on unless she wanted traipse through the ship in her undergarments.Outside the shuttle was a squad of Union Marines, all armed and armored, waiting for her. At the bottom of the stairs was a Naval officer with the shoulder boards of a Commander. He introduced himself as Commander Dean and said he would be her counsel."My. Why are they after me?" Arnoldwanted to know."Well, as I said it's complicated. You see witches and warlocks are thestrongest at their hour. If they perform magic it is a one and done dealperformed by the whole group. Whissies instead have each a personal hour.More or less corresponding to our time measurement. If they want to castgrand magic spells they have to chain their hours together. One Whissystarts a spell and hands it over to a Whissy who's hour is tailing his orher own. With each. Riley lifted herself up and spoke enthusiastically, “No, not like me, but you will find someone different, and that’s the best thing in life; different people, different places, different experiences. Just think how your life would be if you hadn’t met me and experienced all the new things I have shown you? No matter what, promise me one thing, that you will always search out new things in life and never be afraid to try anything once.” I thought about what she said and slowly nodded as I.