" In His house beneath the sea, may His dreams never fade," the chorus responded, the words coming slower and deeper until they ended in a drawn out g...oan.Shantar was close enough now that he could see clearly what the priests were doing, and even his toughened ego was wrenched, making him try vainly to look away. A screaming, struggling figure was being methodically cut and slashed until not a single square inch of her skin was whole, yet so skillfully was it done that she was left not only. Wow, did she deliver!The wedding was small, we had to pay for it ourselves so we only invited our closest friends and family. The only extended family was my asshole uncle, Tom, who was there thanks to my mother. Like most weddings we followed a lot of the common traditions, one of which was not seeing the bride before the wedding. When Shannon walked through those doors, I was shocked by how gorgeous she looked in her stunning dress. It was a vintage long sleeved satin gown, with lots of lace. “Enough of that sentimentality let us move on, this is a different war and there are different issues. Both of you are also aware that I still have a partly intact fleet. My fleet will need to be part of this war and how can I not be involved?”Brecht replied, “Your fleet will be enormously valuable and important. You have very effective weapons against our current enemies and a new generation of shields courtesy of Porquenta. I would propose your fleet joins the fleet of the Collective. We will. Wow, I'm in love with the idea, and I'm terrified of it at the same time,' I thought before I brought my head back up.I rubbed my face with both hands and shook my head a few times too. "He is my step-son, but I love him. It did take some courage for him to spill his guts, but in the end, he eventually arrived at the point where he felt it would be appropriate to tell me," I explained, shedding a single tear. "Maybe it is lust, love, or a mix, but he asked."I took in another deep breath and.