He took it very hard. In the end, they’d made the dickheads pay.That was what it was all about, after all.It was a rare moment of weakness for the L...eutenant. Most line officers didn’t know shit from Shinola. He’d never known what the phrase meant until he’d joined the Confederacy. Before then, it was just something he’d heard once or twice from some Americans who’d fought along side him and his troops in the god dammed sandbox. It meant most line officers gave pretty little orders from a. ‘I wondered if you were going to talk about that.’ I shook my head. ‘None of us were there. The first we knew about it was when a guard was posted – I had to ask what a sword was.’ ‘The next time we came to see your world, it was a very different place. Dark, covered with clouds. ‘But there was still something remarkable going on. I watched the animals, one here, one there, lifting up their heads as though they heard some kind of call. I followed them, so many, all coming together, and the. Her heart skipped a beat at the beauty of this vision in motion and then her obedience training kicked in. Schooling her mind and body, she prepared to meet this ruler.As this entity dismounted, she caught sight of the flowing golden mane of silken hair and then noticed the emerald green cat's eyes he sported. An unbidden thought then raced through her stunned mind, 'Oh my, where in all the worlds am I?'This entity then approached and bowing slightly, said in a voice like the sound of a harp,. The senior staff had agreed to maintain the focus on day-to-day survival, without discussing the inevitable end of their doomed attempt to escape their fate. Three months without contact was near-total proof that the contact would never come. Whatever had destroyed them had done so without leaving any sign of their location, and so even if a rescue attempt had been undertaken, it must have ended by now, with obvious lack of success.Roger regretted the missed chance to finally connect with.