She grinned at me and replied, “Yes, Mother has sent my sister Cyan to attend to him.”I frowned, “How can a ship be your mother?” What the voi...e had said seemed strange. She had said she was ‘The Ship’.Celadon chuckled, “Zara made us. This ship had a storage of DNA, ova and sperm from the previous occupants. Mother has made several brothers and sisters before us. She also modified our DNA, so we also contain part of her. It makes it easier for us to control and fix any of the ship’s systems.”I. ‘Do you want me to exercise? Do you want to watch me?’ she asked, stretching her body sensually. No matter how many times I saw her body, each time I did made me hard. God, she was beautiful. ‘Yes, exercise for me’ I said. I saw her body break out in goosebumps, her nipples immediately hardening. She started to do aerobics, following along to the DVD. I watched, entranced by her bouncing body. I wanted to take her right then and there, but knowing that she was totally mine and that I could. The landing will commence in the morning. Please, make your preparations. All available boats of the squadron will be needed, but make sure you have spare crews. I imagine this may take a full week.”“Such is my experience, Admiral Maynard,” Wellesley agreed. “When can we expect Sir Hew Dalrymple and his men?”“As far as I know, his transport is being affected as we speak,” Maynard answered evasively. “Sir Hew is, hrhm, very careful in his planning.”“Yes, I would imagine,” Sir Arthur sighed. “All. Still - magic can be fun. Guess I'll give it a read.Whoops - the e-mail program beeped. Finally, the download is done. I switched back to e-mail. What the heck? There must be over 200 messages from today alone! I quickly scanned the messages. Most seemed to be from the Fictionmania list about S2K. What the hell is S2K? Is that the Story 2000? Hmmm. Well, if it's got so much message traffic, it must be a good one. I popped back to the browser and clicked on the Story 2000 link.Oh, oh! Something.