As I opened it she tried to push past me, her short stature being what it was she was unsuccessful. However I was able to shove her to the ground and ...ad enough time to grab the bucket and splash it onto her. She screamed in pain. I laughed maniacally as I again shut and locked the door. As I walked away I looked at my watch and noted the time, I planned to return in five minutes to retrieve my prisoner. The grill and the fryer were at temperature and ready for my plans. I returned to the. Meanwhile, I'm sure you all heard that a Sa'arm ship visited the system yesterday. It appears to have been a courier or scout and vanished back in the direction it came from, so now we need to prepare for more visitors. We already have battle armor being produced for Fred, Xavier and Brad and myself. This will provide people for using the lasers, but we will need to start drilling on them. Also Louis is producing a plan to scatter the resupply base and conceal it better. Most of the pieces. Maybe it is time to reduce the number of immortals by one.”“I think that can be arranged, Sir.”--’’--Meeze had successfully traversed the yard without being seen. He didn’t have the best hearing so he did not notice the blood-curling screams that came from one of those half pipe openings that connected the yard to the undercroft of the compound or heard the cracking report of Kermac blasters.He scurried across the street. A Thauran woman walking on the other side, gasped as she saw him pressed. Brenda came in with the cotton balls and a spoon, and Tanya followed with a glass terrarium. The bottom of it was covered with rose colored gravel, and there was a branch from a crepe myrtle tree. Two lizards were on the branch, another scurried, frightened, back and forth across the gravel. Tanya put the terrarium on the coffee table in front of the couch."What are you going to do?" asked Brenda."I'm going help our little friend by hurting those who hurt her. We must have something from them,.