? She came home a little late butwas happy to see the house was clean and the dinner was made. ?Sorry I am a little late, hun,but my meetings ran a li...tle long.? I smiled at her, ?It is ok dear, thesauce needed more time to cook anyway.?.? ?How was your day?? Didthe interview go well?? I had nearly forgotten about the interview.? All that has been running through my mind wasSamantha.? Remembering about theinterview brought me back to that low state.??It didn?t go well.? ?I am sure you will find. We're at battle stations, and I need to report to the bridge." The bridge? Oh, of course. You're the Captain, right?" Eric sneered."No, I'm not," Joey said huffily before tapping his communicator and saying, "Conner to the bridge." This is the Captain. Joey, are you all right?" I think so," Joey said. "Why are we still at red alert?" The Gaylord is under attack. We're twenty minutes away from intercept. If you're up to it, I'd like you at ops." Is it ... Borg?" Yes. Wally said they popped out. Hmmm, I must have missed a blaze or two.He swung to the right of the valley, and thirty minutes later, he found a blaze mark on a tree. Several times, he startled smaller animals as they dug in the ground or snoozed in the sun. I’m surely not as quiet as Lobo, but I must have learned to walk a little quieter, because I’m walking up on more small animals than I was when I was first dumped here.A few minutes after giving a short whistle, Lobo ghosted out of the brambles ahead of him. Squatting a. He looked at her, trying to read her emotions but it was impossible. She had been playing the game longer than Jeff."Could be I have straight flush," she told him sweetly when she saw his perusal. "Or it could be I have a broken straight. That's what makes the game interesting, isn't it, Waters?"Jeff returned her smile, an expression he'd rarely offered to anyone in the past, particularly people of the female persuasion. He, like all of the other men at the table, was strongly attracted to her.