She’d tried to complain to the Captain of the Alliance ship her parents were serving on at the time, but he just laughed and threw her out of the ro...m, telling them that a shiprat like her was born for it. Shepard joining the Alliance was supposed to change her life. Give her confidence, make her a new woman. But it wasn’t even three days before she fell into the lowest position in her training camp, bullied and degraded for her lack of physical prowess by the rest of the cadets. It was only. He said he’d do it because he’s known you for a lot longer and I guess you guys hung out, too.”“I take it you understand all the pitfalls and potential problems.”“Yes.”I wondered about that, as I had no idea how much Terry had told her. I was very happy with how Terry had handled the situation, though I wasn’t happy with the prospect of saying ‘yes’ OR ‘no’. My inclination was to enforce the policy manual, and decline the request, but I’d promised Terry I’d think about it. I was also reasonably. He immediately perked up all over his body, spinning round to see her stood in the open door, dressing gown on tied around her waste, blonde hair up, bare feet. He stared. Hard. “Hey buddy I asked you a question!” she snapped at him, just the smallest hint of a smile. Brett grinned instinctively, his mind racing “oh hey sorry miss, I didn’t see you there...”. It was a weak answer and he knew it. She looked him up and down, her hand playing with the waistband on her dressing gown “so buddy, what. This time he simply took hold of herfoot with hishand, between his thumb and fingers, preventing her from flexing her toes. Thenhe began to draw the feather across the instep of her right foot, over andover, as she howled with laughter, laughing so hard she couldn?t even plead forhim to stop. Every few minutes, he would draw the feather across the groovebelow her toes and in between each of her toes,driving her to new heights of laughter. Some fortyminutes passed while he worked on her right.