It wasn'treally a date anyhow, just a late night coffee, a long talk, and then us togetherin the front seat of my van outside her house. That's when I...d kissed her,and she hadn't stopped me. Her lips had been warm and expectant, curious andmore than a little willing. She'd raised a hand and fingered a button on myshirt as I kissed her, as if wondering whether she should open it and stickher hand inside, but the feel of her lips on mine had inflamed me and I'd pushedher back into the seat,. "William began to puruse the paperwork, while Tess just folded her armsand shook her head, letting her frustration show. "Why didn't you justask for a summery from both of us, Lorraine? It could take us hours to gothrough all of this paperwork and we have..." Here,"William interrupted. "This all you need. These three pages tellthe whole story."Tess sighed a laugh at William's efficiency. "Or... we could just let thenew girl take care of it and it will be solved in less than twominutes."Lorraine. You decide to pick it up and examine it. You hold it in its hand and feel its weight and texture, it’s quite light and there seems to be something inscribed on its surface but the characters are too ancient for you to read. You hold it by the string and start swinging it like a pendulum. As it swings in front of your eyes you feel a strange aura about it. It’s definitely something really special, it’s… entrancing. You could feel there was definitely something special about this unique yet. When the first Battle Brigade gets here I want that station taken apart and everyone on it put under a truth scan.”I landed easily and carefully moved to the airlock. As I closed the outer doors I felt the ship come to life. I stripped out of the suit and headed up to the bridge. Michelle was in her seat moving the ship and Tinker and Silvia were quietly working the engineer displays. I watched Michelle from the hatch and Tinker grinned at me before nudging his wife.After the ship came to a.