She looked really good and was smiling and pleased to see me, we kissed briefly in the hall as she closed the door behind me. ‘My God Becca, you’...e starting to look younger and sexier every time I see you.’ ‘Flattery will get you everywhere,’ she laughed and reached up to put her arms around my neck. ‘You’ll get dirty,’ I grinned, holding her away from my muddy clothes. ‘You could take them off.’ She laid a hand softly and affectionately against my cheek, smiling, her eyes were warm and. ‘Please leave, now,’ I said firmly after just a quick glance. I was more certain than ever the pair of them were muckrakers of one sort or another. ‘You are no longer welcome here.’ ‘Oh, wow,’ said Cammy, trying to peer over my shoulder again. ‘When was that?’ ‘Cammy,’ I sighed, but they were already focused on her. ‘Do you recognize them?’ Kim asked, brusquely pushing past me to shove the picture in front of Cammy. ‘That’s it! Out!’ I shouted at them, pushing the Asian towards the elevator. ‘A. She slackened her muscles, stepped back and let her sword and dagger hang loose in her hands, watching him but not insisting that he call on the Angel of Mercy. He looked round at the H’las soldiers all around them. He let his weapons fall to the ground and stood staring desolate at the torn muddy grass below his feet. It was over. They had lost. ‘Darien.’ He looked up at her. Now that he could pay attention, he could see how she was changed by the war. She was so thin that her determination. "Mom and Dad would've known all about it in a couple of weeks anyway. We were intending to get lots of girls into my life, so they'd be calling home, coming to it, and I might even be boinking them there..."#4: I'm sure Carol didn't believe her victory yet. She spotted a loophole or two, "And we can make love there whenever WE want! Including with Julia if she's staying over, because she WILL be staying over!" Carol wasn't asking questions; she was stating what she wanted to happen. But she was.