Finishing up the bedding I look around and announce, “only 1 box to go!” she turns red and tries to hide the box now under a pillow. “Or not…�...�.” She giggles and blushes before managing to get out a meek “ohhh I can handle that one on my own.” “nonsense I say, I came to help, why stop now?” I say as I pop the box open and now see why she was so hesitant…. “hmmm…. What have we here????” I say, grinning up at her flush sheepish face. “well… you know how it is… he works nights a lot so sometimes….”. I was determined to attend eventhought thoughts of drugs, orgies, group sex and all sorts of debaucherycame to mind. You see I was a bit of a plain Jane when it came to parties.I never smoked, seldom drank and never touched drugs aside from the overthe counter stuff. My entire life was about control and any loss ofcontrol scared me to no end. As the day grew near, my mind filled withexcuses not to go. It might rain, it might be too cold, too hot, toowindy, too dry, too nice... you name the. They’d been moving for nearly ten minutes when Zara glanced towards Colin, “You were right,” she reported.Colin shrugged, “It’s not surprising,” he said, “I’d have done the same thing.”Earlier he’d sent a message off to his father reporting the conversation he’d had the previous day with Angus Graham. He and his crew had then watched as Angus had departed the station, followed ten minutes later by a House Graham frigate. The frigate didn’t follow exactly the same heading as the scout ship with. I figured to be up shit creek if the ogres caught me! At least, I had the good sense not to run directly back to the base, but to cut in a big arc to make it difficult for the ogres to follow me. On my way, I happened to see one of the large creatures of the swamp that reminded me of an alligator. I made an effort to annoy him so that he would take his irritation out on an ogre if one happened to pass this way.About 45 minutes later, I heard a number of gunshots from the ogres' guns, so I.