Just as I was about to speak, Chastity called out. “Hey Captain!”“No, keep your attention on the controls,” Blaine immediately said. “You ju...t have one more gate and then we can end the simulation.”Chastity ran over to meet me at the door. “Sorry, we knew you’d be working the other simulators so Blaine and I came up with a rather simple slalom course.”“Just a number of turns to navigate around an imaginary system?” I asked.“Yes, but you start in jump space. You have to handle the transition. No one else was around, though it wasn’t that early by our normal standards, and I wondered if the sour expression on his face had scared everyone off. I sat down beside my brother and took his hand, resting my head on his shoulder as I picked at cold jerky I had fished out of my pack. We didn’t speak; I handed Aedan and Alistair some of the jerky, and we ate together in silence as we waited for the new Grey Wardens to wake.About an hour later, the three men emerged from their tents one at a. You’ve always been there for me, so if anyone deserves this, you do.”“A simple, ‘Yes, sexy,’ would have done,” he answered, leaning back.She cocked her head, considering him. “So you don’t have any issues with it, or like most men, are you only thinking with your dick?”He tilted his head back, closing his eyes before opening them and addressing her again. “No, it disturbs me, just not as much as it does you. We aren’t biologically related, despite living as brother and sister. While I’m not. A split-second glance, that was all I had, before she pushed the dress down with her free hand. It was enough. The gold pattern on dark red cotton covering her bum was now, I knew, indelibly burned into my mind. She half-turned to look down at me, her face flushed, then continued up the stairs. That was how it started. * I sat on my bed, listening. No sound came from downstairs. Were they arguing? Did they hate me? I had no idea. I stood up and wandered aimlessly round the little space I.