The newly-promoted Sub-Decurion reflected that this had been one hell of a birthday so far: getting her CAP score, her first concubine and her first s...xual experience, and now dealing with the most common function of a Civil Service officer, picking up the pieces of a metaphorically shattered pod."What happens next?" the teary-eyed Callee asked in a thick Irish accent."You've been out here how long?" Samantha probed gently. Behind her, a somewhat sleepy, nude Vickie arrived for work. "You. This was not a year for the calling of the devil incarnate to wet their human flesh with his sacred seed. That had not happened for nigh on to twenty years and it was unlikely to happen again in Nikki's lifetime. She had heard the rumor that was spread amongst the coven that she was the product of that fateful night but since she didn't feel any sense of devil's blood flowing in her veins so she assumed it was just a fanciful tale to make the young people more aware of the need for secrecy.They. After the next cycle, the message was “4BDN-PLN8.” This wasn’t on the list. It was nonsense, and although I probably should have prevented it, there was nothing in my training to allow me to do so. The message wasn’t wrong so I couldn’t delete it. Actually, it wasn’t wrong or right. It was nonsense, so I had no real choice but to let it go through.Then ServoMechs started going off line permanently. Each time I came out of my recharge cycle, there was one less ServoMech active on the ship.. You have my sympathy for your folks, by the way.’ ‘Thanks.’ ‘It’s just that no team had put up more than seven points against us, yet you burned us for 42…without benefit of seeing any film. That’s good, kid. I can’t wait to see you play in college. Good luck to you.’ ‘Thanks. Congratulations.’ The coach nodded and rounded up his team. Joe headed towards the locker room when he was stopped by the cheerleaders. They each thanked him with a kiss on the cheek, and he asked what that was for..