”“I don’t like this, who authorised it?”“Commander Kiria as Commander-in-charge, after the alien put her on the spot. It was a case of fight...now and end it or take more casualties.”“That’s my girl,” Cure David chuckled.“She’ll win?”“I can’t think of any better, other than an Imperial bodyguard and she also has Truvia there to assist if needed.”“You’d better be right and, believe me, I’ll be having a word with her about usurping Royal prerogatives.”“Serenissima, you’d only choose a champion as. I hadn’t noticed them locking it. So I tried to climb it but it’s like ten feet high or something and I couldn’t get my shoes in the mesh, to get a grip, so I fell down again and I was just cornered there and the three of them gathered round me.“I got ready to fight, though I hadn’t much of a chance, but they just said, you know, “play the strip tennis with us, it’s just a laugh, a game, we often play don’t be such a little girl, you want to be on the tennis team don’t you” and things like. "Hey neighbor," she greeted me as she always did with a warm and beautiful smile."Hi," was all I could say, dumbstruck as always by this beautiful brunette bombshell that was maybe only five years older than me."College keeping you busy James?" Julie asked. The first time we met she laughed after our introductions saying us Jays got to stick together. I only wish she meant physically as well.She always wanted to know how I was doing and what I was up too. Julie was only just a mother for a. She placed her husband, Brian, in the presidency and stayed where she could count the money rolling in and keep it from dripping out.One of her very annoying quirks was her insistence that she hire and supervise the ships’ pursers. Over the years, this led to some very obnoxious individuals complicating Hoag’s life. However, if one is sufficiently obnoxious and hated, life aboard ship can become very unpleasant, and the worst appointees did not last long. Hoag’s current purser was the daughter.