They may be getting me to relax, however that much relaxing I do not think I could get away with.I went back and sat in the command chair. "Everybody ...eady?"Bob smiled. "Ready as we can be." Ashley?" Ready I suppose." You suppose?" This is not my normal thing, what can I say? How many teenagers do you know that usually go into orbit?"The same number that do drugs to get high?I resisted saying that one though.Megan looked a little bit uncomfortable. "Ashley has a point. Don't get us wrong, we. Where is the data telling where your SRS base is?" "I... I don't know what you're talking about?" King Adrian stuttered. "Allmembers of royalty on my planet dress in robes like this." That is not a royal robe," the executioner chuckled beneath his hood withcut out eye holes. "That is a woman's dress and against the law." Down on the desert planet, Sandra was starting to wish that he had dressedup in a bikini like his friend Lesley. For hours, the two trudged up anddown the dunes. They felt like. "That was close," I muttered when the firing stopped. Then looking at Dupree and Nimue, I said, "Thanks." Hey, no problem, my lord," Dupree chuckled in response; "after all, you brought them to us so we could play so the least we could do was to oblige you."I smiled at that bit of whimsy and then got serious. The ten dead troopers had provided us with a boon. I sent out a couple of my men who were armed with crossbows and told them to strip the dead men of their weapons and ammunition and to. Eventually you pulled away, kissed my forehead. ‘Goodnight, I’ll see you in the morning.’ And then you walked away, to your beat up old pickup truck. I got in my blue Malibu and drove to my parents’ house where I was staying while I was in town. I walked inside to see that no one was home and went upstairs into my childhood bedroom. It was still the same as when I left it when I was seventeen. The walls were still a butterscotch color with suns, moons and stars as a border. I lay down in my bed.