She was not safely in space but here with us and wearing armour. She was difficult to hug but we tried. She was much more careful with us.Erica said t...rough her external speaker, "You guys did a pretty good job. There was no organised resistance left." How many of your cadets died?" Three." Resistance must still have been stiff if three died when in armour." Some of the soldiers had some heavy weapons that should have been in the armoury. The bloody Aristis and there internecine warfare. They. After gently massaging him, Kim grew frustrated.He felt very warm but that was all. There just wasn't anyactivity down there. Finally, she pulled him against her chest,where he began to kiss the tops of her breasts greedily. As hismouth moved, she stroked his hair, and wondered at how soft itwas. When he was done, Kim dressed John in her sweater andskirt, then made sure he knew how it felt to have someone's handcaress his thigh. Once he was asleep (and dreaming, she hoped),Kim put him on. Option 2: I was dreaming or the equivalent of dreaming, which meant I was in a coma or dead and this was the Land of Ever Summer. This was the easiest of the three options to believe, and the easiest on my psyche.Option 3: I was full out bat shit crazy, and in the midst of a psychotic episode. This was the most likely explanation, but also the hardest on my psyche.As I examined each option, I realized that with the information I had at the moment there was no way to determine which one I was. “Do you see?” I explained, “The light comes from the tower above, it is hollow to the glazed ceiling.”“Most peculiar,” she agreed, but she followed as I led her down and along the corridor.“Voila! as the frenchies have it,” I laughed as I led her into the tower playroom. The entire inside of the hollow stone tower was whitewashed and reflected the light downwards with little diminuition. It was and is twenty feet clear at the base almost circular on two sides but squared on two more where the.