.." "Come on, we're friends, you could share..." I had known for years that I was, what my dear Jeff had titled, 'the winner'. It's what he called him...elf when we were out, after mingling with the crowd, or later, on the way home. "I was the winner, again," he would tell me, whispering the words in my ear if we were still there. It was his way of saying that I was the prettiest woman there, the winner in the contest of husbands. We would smile, and I would thank him, for I knew he meant it,. “This is but a symbol of my power. You have a Kermac device in your cranium, human. Do as I say and change course. Have a taste of pain.”With a mental command the Kermac agent activated the device and nothing happened. Swybar grinned at him.“This ship is equipped with a state of the art Auto Doc Sick bay; the first thing I did was a detailed med scan. Your device is long gone, Kermac. You are nothing but predictable and I expected such a device ever since I woke in the Coffin.”The Agent of the. I opened the door and was hit with hot, humid air. It had to be one hundred degrees. I turned the overhead fans on in the porch. I was dripping sweat in no time.Surprisingly, it was much cooler along the water, only about thirty yards from the bungalow. Since no one was in sight, I dropped my shorts and waded into the warm, blue gulf. How I do love being naked, not to mention, skinny-dipping. After a while of swimming and drifting around, I remembered my coffee. I was holding my shorts when I. ”“Let’s use all the external cameras,” Devin suggested. “We can cover the sky a lot faster that way.” A nagging doubt started tugging at the back of his mind as he looked at the still image of the sun on his own display.Shanna grinned sapiently. “I’m on it, Boss. Starting the scans now.” The large display at Shanna’s station was split into a dozen smaller images, each belonging to a different external camera.The cameras panned across the sea of stars for a full minute, and suddenly Sijay leaned.