"Lee Roy, my friend." the judge greeted him, "How is married life treating you? More to the point, are you treating your child bride well? She seems t... be a nice little girl, not like the rest of her family." He frowned at the mere thought of that useless Bench Daly. The Judge and Bench Daly had a longstanding dislike for each other."Well, I don't know about th' little girl part, Judge, she just keeps getting' bigger every day. As for treating her right, I don't know if I am or not. She wants a. Cook, Caroline. I'm helping him up the stairs."Instantly his mother answered in a worried tone, "Is everything all right? Simon?" I'm okay, Mum. It's just that I had physio today and I shouldn't have stayed on my feet for so long afterwards. I'll be fine." I'll get him settled, Mrs. Cook," Caroline insisted, and Jackie Cook, wise woman that she was, asked no further questions.They hobbled into Simon's room and with Caroline's aid he collapsed into his chair. They both took a breather, then. This will make travel a bit faster and save money. Always a good thing.Mission 30Planet: WeldryMission: Thorn in the SideLance:Poltergeist – AtlasMedusa – DragonVonkobra – KintaroSonic – VindicatorThis mission was an assassination mission against a Directorate pilot in a nice cold polar sector of the planet. We were dropped into the hills and started off towards the suspected locations of the enemy.We spotted a couple mechs on the scanners, a medium and a light mech. Sonic moved up and spotted. Yeah..." It was too late to get excited -- she'd been deflowered already, Mary realized. Now, the only thing to do was to try to make it all worthwhile...Given the small encouragement he took from Mary's response, Ray started rocking in and out, taking ground incrementally. She would tell him if it hurt something awful or whatever, he figured. He lowered his face and searched for her lips.It was the right thing to do. Mary had been feeling somewhat isolated and her responses to his movement.