“I don’t know. I think we would have noticed if they fell off or something, they just disappeared.”“You had snacks in yours right?”“Yes, I...did.”Without a map or compass Wesley and Audrey could both say that they were truly lost. They also now didn’t have any food. The two of them tried to search for any sort of particular tree or rock or some other landmark that could help them retrace their steps. But everything looked the same. Wesley and Audrey wandered what they thought to be south but. We remained friends,and still spent much time together in her room,listening to records.One night, she asked for a backrub. She lay on herstomach, and I went to work on her shoulders, working myway down as far as the waistband of her sweatpants.There was nothing sexual or even remarkable about it.However, the next night she asked again. This time, soonafter I had started, she said, “Wait, let me take my braoff.” She removed it from under her t-shirt and lay back down.Unfortunately. She kept on telling me. “Kaliment has also an abundance of a rare crystalline form of Magnetite, a mineral absolutely vital to space faring civilizations.”There I had to correct her, maybe she had spent too long in Freespace. “That stuff isn’t used since Dr. Isah completely redesigned the FTL drive Sarans gave to Earthers 3000 years ago. We don’t even use it in blasters anymore, because it is not very efficient, and unreliable compared to the reliable and 99% more efficient ISAH lattice that. Clara continued to moan softly as her orgasm slowly faded away. The experience had been so intense that it left her trembling in Jeff’s arms. Her overwhelmed partner was breathing raggedly beneath her. The expression on his face could’ve given the impression that he’d just been run over by a semitrailer, but Jeff was coasting quite happily in his own sexual afterglow. A few minutes later, well after both Clara and Jeff had calmed down, Clara worked up the energy to pull her arms out from.