I looked into the commander’s office to see Cambra with a new officer, “I am taking Michaels out for a recovery on planet.”She nodded and turned...back to the marshal while I turned and headed for the lifts. Dragon landed on my shoulder before I reached them and Michaels joined me just as I stepped into a lift. I glanced at him, “You work the recovery while I watch.”He nodded and cleared his throat, “Amanda should be considered for promotion.”We walked out of the lift and started for the front. I guess you would say he has AIDS.”“Would say?”“AIDS isn’t really a thing. HIV causes a suppressed immune system which leads to a whole class of diseases that mostly only occur in patients with HIV. The Press still uses AIDS and HIV interchangeably, and doesn’t really distinguish between the various health problems that different people have from opportunistic diseases. But forget it. I’m married to a doctor.”“And your other conditions?”“In the past, verified birth control and complete trust in. My time was for me and I valued these respites as neccessary to my health and my sanity. I hadn't been to my duplex in Oakland for about eight months and was going to try and rent it out. I decided to take a few weeks in June and go do some work there. It was mostly maintenance and routine stuff. I stayed a couple nights doing work around the place....Then I went to a bar where I ended up buying some CrystalMeth from the bouncer. By Thursday, I had been partying and "playing" by myself. She had worried so much that her wife had sacrificed so much for her, and here in the form of this little girl of such single-minded passion was what was needed to bring relief. As her fingers explored her clitoris and the slippery folds of her vulva, she wondered if she had the energy to participate, but though a part of her desired the thrust and grapple of sex, she knew she had none of the energy and somehow lost the sexual inclination to relieve herself in such a gross physical way..