From about 9.30pm you were keeping the company of a blonde woman. Nobody recognised her, but I'll give you one thing, she was drop dead gorgeous. Anyw...y about 10.30pm I saw you leaving with your arm draped around the bare shoulder of the mystery woman. There are a lot of blokes in this department from whom I'd expect that sort of behaviour, but not you Richard." I assure you Craig I don't remember a thing, if I had the pleasure of the young lady then it was totally wasted because I don't. Oh, she’d dropped the formal pre-church inspection when we graduated high school, but only to instigate the slightly less prescriptive visual check and brush-over that she gave herself and Dad whenever they were going into company.Several times while I was at college, I’d failed the ‘clean-shaven’ part and been sent back upstairs.It was part of the price of ‘The Mom-and-Pop Meals and Laundry Plan’, so I sucked it up. Strange how the freedom to spend the weekend unshaven and slovenly becomes so. You do that at least once every shift.“The Shift has just started Marion,” Sally said.“She is such a smart ass,” I said to Maze the forensic lab tech.“But she is also a beautiful woman,” Maze said.“Maze eat your heart out, she is Transgender not gay,” I replied.“What the hell are you two whispering about?” Sally asked.“We were just talking science.” Maze replied. I just smiled.“So is this a dump job,” I asked. “The place looks awfully clean to be a crime scene. I mean there is not much blood. ”She stared at me and then started laughing. That was how I met Sergeant Tracy Talent. She was the one to work me through their train up course. She never said anything about my Swift either. Gecko was a seemly nice world, it only had a few small towns and one small starport. Scouts were different than scout recon, they dropped onto a fringe or colony world alone and reported on what they found.My insertion had been quiet and easy and I moved to my first target. Everything looked normal for a.