Tola looked cross and was surprised to see her granddaughter completely nude as well as Valerie was just waking up.Tola looked at both women and nodde... knowingly as she surmised correctly what went on between them the night before. She had spent the night with Sun the seamstress making dresses for Atlanta and Valerie out of the silk from the parachute. She set the garments down and put her hands on her hip looking at them both."So you two have been having relations. Atlanta, I don't know how. ”“Surely you jest, sir?”“The Fleet has had billions of Royals spent on it. In the last war we were unbeatable; this war we’ve barely scratched our enemy. But this time, the Ground Force, made up mostly of so-called gutterscum, lower level nobodies, is carrying the fight to the Empire’s enemies. Tell me we do not need the lower level people to fight for us?”“Yes, you’re right sir, these are the people we need.”“We do indeed.”“Any idea what this is, only it doesn’t look like what I’d expect a. . were these even hers?Music pounded downstairs, vibrating everything she touched. Struggling erect, she stumbled back to the bedroom door and fumbled it open. The higher decibel level in the hallway almost made her close it again. She was nauseous. Holding her head, she moaned and leaned against the door jamb, fighting not to retch right there in the doorway. She was so messed up.Had Gunther fed her something besides beer and weed, she wondered? She knew about date-rape drugs and how lots of. .. the hijab?”“My mother always tied my hair in a headscarf. Someplace along the line in school, kids started taunting me about being a Muslim terrorist. I lived in a pretty redneck area down south. You’d be amazed at how racist they still are. We got threats all the time, even though we went to a Presbyterian church. Being a devious creature, I capitalized on it. I started wearing the hijab in junior high and discovered the school had to make allowances for me on the assumption of religious.