Mak began to wish that his hair was a little thicker, but brisk walking soon warmed them. By now he had an excellent grasp of the traders' language, a...d they spent much of the time on the trail trying to teach it to Lev and Lenna."You have learned this language very quickly," Jewel complimented him one evening as they sat by the fire before rolling up in their blankets."A good hunter must be able to see and hear everything around him, and remember what he has sensed," he answered. "Imitating. " Did you ... like it?" asked the woman.Bob's forehead wrinkled as he pondered how to answer that question."For me it was just a haze of white. I knew people ... you girls ... were there, but I didn't realize it was you. I mean I recognized Valerie's voice, and yours when they were younger, but it was all just a cloud I was in. I don't remember feeling anything exactly. I remember each orgasm I had, but not how I felt about it." He looked at her. "Isn't that strange? Now that I'm awake I can. I was lying on top of the girl that I loved, the girl that did not love me back, and I could feel the lump forming in my chest again. My limp cock slid out of her as I stood up, pulling up the zipper on my jeans; she didn't move to stop me as I left the room, and not a word was said between the two of us. My footsteps seemed to echo as I crossed the living room, shoving the front door closed as I passed; it felt like I was back at the supermarket, with all those people silently passing judgment. There were also residuals from a massive antimatter explosion.When we closed into visual range of the Beverly, I could see the damage from way too long a distance. My eyes pretty much confirmed what the scanners where reporting. I was not looking at “The Beverly” but what was left of the Beverly. Her hyperspace drive was gone completely, along with her antimatter reactor, which under the circumstances was a good thing. There appeared to be a time shear fracture running the width of hull, where.