"You're in my office." Who are you?" she asked, pulling the warm blanket tighter around herself."Z'rai," he told her, not even glancing in her directi...n, engrossed in what was on the screens on his table. "But you will call me sir or master. Do you understand?" M-master?" she asked, almost shivering."Yes. You belong to me now, Straika claims an error was made when you arrived, our drugs were not administered. you can no longer return to earth." What?" she shot up again, ignoring the sharp stabs. He hadbeen doing that since it before it changed its name from Six of the Bestafter the scandal. Its format was simple. Four men trained four women. Alleight were in Ando bodies which meant they looked spectacular and thattheir real bodies would not be damaged. As a patron (50 dollars a month)Andy got to influence events rather than simply watch. Tonight he was late,a delivery driver at work had got lost, and it had forced him to wait. Sowhen he finally logged it was to find two of the guys,. Half an hour later my wife’s skills in conflict management were being tested to the limit. Sarah was Millie’s mother, no doubt about that, but Millie’s father was a close relative of Mark, a sibling most likely. There is only Mark and I, so I was the culprit.It didn’t matter how much Sarah and I denied it, and how many dates and diaries we checked, Mark was adamant, I had screwed his wife, and she had my child.The next time Mark and I met, we were sitting in the hospital consultant’s office,. As we entered the atmosphere the capsule would wake us and then peel away. We would freefall in battle suits and use grav shrouds to slow and land. After that we had a hundred kilometers between us and our target. Along the way was at least four divisions in armored positions. Even if we took out our target there was no sure way off the planet.I checked each of my men as they went into their capsule and were put into stasis. I settled into mine and shifted to get comfortable, "alright captain.