What is coming, and what can we do about it?"What indeed, she though. There wasn't a damn thing they could do but shehad a feeling if she said that, t...ey could shoot her right there and shecouldn't stop them. "The Empresses is invading. At my guess when I sawthe fleet that was coming, I would put the number of troops she is goingto land at around a billion. 'On of the generals gasp, "A billion?" Yes maybe more. A primary battleship, at four thousand eight hundredmeters in length, six hundred. I'm not sure they even own a pair of panties, let alone wear them with any regularity." I was thinking more about girls like Andy's old girlfriend," Ruth said. "Not the one we met at the dance ... the other one." Erin," Regan said in a tone of voice that would have frozen the bay if she'd been outside."Her," Ruth agreed. "I guess, on the outside, she looks like a normal chick. But inside she's a raging skank-o-saurus. I mean, shit, I could have tried on a suit that Joy once had up against that. " We clicked our glasses and sipped the bubbly. Cathy asked "Where are you taking me?" "Some place befitting your highnesses station" I replied. We sipped and rode for a while as the limo left town and turned into the country club that I had joined last year.As the car pulled to a stop the door was opened by a uniformed attendant and we got out. He was wearing the uniform of the Scottish guard of Buckingham Palace. I escorted my princess to the front door of the club where a doorman in an. Ruby felt the solid reassuring heat of his touch. She swallowed but her throat was suddenly intensely dry. “Please don’t send me back, I’m begging you!” She rapped her fingers around his hand, squeezed tightly. “He can’t find me, there is no telling what he will do if he does.” She whispered as though The Great Wood that surrounded them might hear her. “Who?” Ruby released a loud sob that shook her body. “We were supposed to be getting married and …” She left it at that, her words trailing off.