Jeremiah looked down at the three hundred plus soldiers and said, "Gentleman, I want you to really look at the men and women of the Federation. Then I...want you to think on one thing. We can go forward from here, and make our world strong or we can continue to destroy our very future and be food when the T'Lari come here. Then you can watch as they herd your families and friends into their feeding pits. The choice is yours. And just so you know, I have seen the enemy and they scare the hell out. A)Leave the money you earn and change back, or B) keep the money you earnas well as your new form and life. Don't worry about your inexperience,or an unwillingness to work until the 24hrs are up your body will be onautopilot, but the choice in the end will be freely yours to make."concluded Amber. "Are you finished? Good! This is madness! Magic isn'treal, and even if it was I don't want to be a women let alone aprostitute." screamed Steven furious with his partner's, seemingly, crueljoke."Well. He mashed the old buttons down and stuffed his hands in his pockets. Turning for the door, he gave her one last look from across the diner, then put his head down and disappeared into the concrete night. Leah picked up the knife and held its contours in her hand. Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb began to float muffled from the jukebox. She couldn’t hide her quiet laugh, and couldn’t help the weight of sadness that drifted down on her from somewhere far away. It was heavier than the weight of the. Fast forward another year or two, and now i was back in portsmouth, this time in the dockyard on one of her majesty`s daring class destroyers. heading back to the dockyard from a night on the piss in southsea i found myself walking past the horshoe bar and thereby the flat where i used to visit arthur. I remembered what he had told me about the guy in the flat above, and filled to the gunnels with dutch courage i decided to ring his doorbell. I knew full well that arthur no longer lived there,.