They claim a sizeable Area in that Cloud and say they have a base in the Fornax Cluster.”“Oh right, they look like large angry Hamsters and if I r...call they do have an impressive fleet of little but very fast and well armed ships.”“Yes that is them alright.”“If I recall the last reports correctly they had a very negative view towards the Attikan and the Union. What changed their minds, do we know?”“I have no detailed Intel on that, but there is an unconfirmed report that a Union legal expert. If she backed away now she would most likely lose them, probably forever, but if she wanted to reconnect she would have to accept their feelings and feel their fire. Was she up for this? Was any of this worth the pain she knew would come later?Linda steeled herself. Her voice was soft and contrite, "Yes, Stacy you are absolutely right. We will have to have those kinds of discussions at some time, I suppose, but for right now we need to be back on some kind of reasonable speaking terms. I called. It’s that overplayed Journey song.“Not the sex,” I say.She looks over at me.“We haven’t had sex in over five years.”“You and your wife?” she asks.“Me and my mistress. Me and her.”She laughs out loud. Looks at the bartender but he’s not looking at her. Looks towards the door then back at me.“What kind of affair this that?”I turn to her.“It has its benefits,” I say.“What could be in it for you? Texts that say ‘thinking about you’?”I smile as I look down. Shake my head no.The sun comes out behind. I probably deserved several more.… and, I deserved the slap you gave me just now.How is Don holding up, he and dad were so close.”“He’s doing well, son.I think it did him a lot of good to be able to spend some time me (What a fucking understatement that was).We, kind of, have the same type of loss to deal with.Carly left him, then your dad died.People don’t realize how the loss of a friend can make it really hard on a person (the word ‘hard’ triggered an image of my rigid cock, causing Linda to.