.Present – Linus – In the tunnelsI barely stop Glen from taking a drink of water and the next thing I know I hear about twenty Marines yell, "Slow...y, get the hell off our General."I look around and see all of them are pointing their M4's at me and I explain, "Sorry about that but I had to keep Glen from drinking the water since we're not sure the drug lord's army didn't poison the well."Glen squirms out from under me and orders, "Stand down men. Damn, I didn't think about that but it's a real. We were in love but not lovers at the time." He chuckled. "We were still resisting our baser instincts. Carrie tells me you plan to attend our wedding tomorrow evening." Yes. I'm curious. How did you convince your parents to accept your... ah, relationship with your sister?" We didn't. From what I can deduce, they would have tried to split us up if we had not been deeply in love, but because my parents are still in love with each other after all these years, they understood. As Dad said, he. “Aye aye, sir!” Jaesa said, before her voice faded away.“Are you sure that we can trust this woman?” Inari asked, giving Captain Tomisic a pointed look.“The woman has just been freed from a type of mental control that has more or less dictated what she could and could not do. How would you be?” Alex asked her.Inari looked a bit abashed at that, knowing that being imprisoned in such a way was not something that was taken lightly. She remembered the story that had broken on the galactic news net. I was having a little bit of trouble walking in a straight line and told Hannah that I think I needed to sit down.“You’ll be fine”, Hannah said as she took another sip of her drink.In the main room I spent most of the time standing next to Hannah as she talked to probably 20 different guys. I spent most of the time sipping my drink cautiously while trying to keep track of their conversations. I found this hard and eventually started to stop listening in general. Suddenly Hannah grabbed my.