We were sitting watching tv in the living room while the older relatives of his talked in teh kitchen around the table. His cousin Marcus came in and ...at down in the chair across from teh couch we were on."Man, those old folks talk forever" he said. Marcus was 20, a big guy, maybe 6'3" about 240 lbs of muscle and bulk, but sweet smiling and calm. Not your average jock. I, being the teenage girl caught in puberty that I was, instantly had a crush on him, marcus, like a teen idol in a magazine,. I tied a knot in the towel at my side and sat on the stool next to her. We chatted as we ate cheese and crackers and drank the wine. The opening in the towel was toward her, and every now and then she would gesture as she talked and would touch my thigh briefly with her left hand. The more she drank, the more she gestured. The bottle of wine was almost empty and I decided that I should do something with the fish. I said as much, and added that while the towel was comfortable, I. “Which way, sir?”“Through that exit there,” I pointed. “Leave a tri-dee cam here. I’d hate to think that shlecker might just regrow itself.”“Yes, sir! Plazey set a cam up, then move out through there!”We all formed up and began to move in the direction suggested by the AI and ordered by me. Again we were met by individual or small groups of aliens who would only drop what they were doing when they spotted us.“Definitely no central control of them now,” Liovol stated on the common. ’ She started to take my hand and then winced. ‘Darn, my hands are really scraped up.’ ‘OK, let’s try it this way.’ I held her upper arm to keep her steady as she picked herself up. She took a couple steps and then staggered, almost going down, and I threw an arm around her waist. Not a big waist, I noticed in passing. She let me take her light weight. ‘You hit your head or something?’ ‘No, I think it’s just adrenaline aftershocks. That was scary.’ ‘No kidding.’ I dropped the tailgate and half.