"Well... ," the sergeant fumbled momentarily. He gave the colonel a direct look. "Sir, it was wrong what he did, really bad wrong, he wouldn't even le... you tell him your plan, and then to start calling names and flat-out attacking you like that— Discipline be damned, there have to be limits. I kind of thought you were sandbagging back there on the ship, but I wasn't dead sure and I wasn't going to take the chance." Thank you, Sergeant. No officer should be humiliated before those he commands,". Werner had an air of confidence and a strong dominant personality that really turned my wife on.After dinner Dolly poured us each another glass of wine and we moved into the family room. Despite the elephant in the room Werner never allowed the conversation to wane and I never felt uncomfortable. We finished our wine and Werner took the lead."Dolly," he said politely, "why don't you draw the blinds."I had assumed we would go upstairs to our bedroom but Werner had other ideas.Dolly closed the. “Athea, wake up there is a delegation at the clan camps. Gillyn asks you to come, she thinks it’s important,” Hassika whispered in her ear.“A delegation? A delegation from where?” Athea asked yawning.“I don’t know. You’ll have to find out for yourself.” Hassika replied.“OK, let’s go then. I hope for Gillyn’s sake this is really important,” Athea grumbled.A little while later Athea and Hassika were walking through the Canbierra camp and approaching Gillyn’s big tent. In front of it they saw clan. Many stopped by to greet us and to tell us they were veryexcited about the wedding. We sat for a while chatting amongourselves. I kept thinking Grace would show up any second, but shenever did. Mandy and Gayle came down and sat with us. I asked whereRyan and Fred were, but they just kind of shrugged it off, saying theywere still in bed.After they finished eating, Mrs. Andrews and my mother excusedthemselves to go begin getting ready. The ceremony was still hoursaway, but women seemed to.