"I pull up my white blouse, but only so that it is covering my bra."And if you could undo your skirt as well, so that we can take a look inside your b...adder."I hesitate. I hadn't anticipated that I would need to unfasten my skirt. He senses my reluctance."I'll need to scan the whole of your urinary tract, so I will need your skirt to be pulled down a bit more to get the scanner into the correct position," he explains."Oh... I see. Alright then."Lying flat on my back, I reach down and unclip the. I looked out the window.Even in the darkness, I could see us rolling past houses, farms, and fields. We passed some freight that probably was unnamed. I saw a lit freight yard filled with old black men, and graveyards of rusted automobiles.I was bored, so I offered to do some card dealing for some old men playing cards. They talked about a penny a point, but it seemed nobody was keeping score. As I sat there with them, I could feel the rails rumble beneath the floor.A really friendly looking,. "Ok, talk." How'd you get that mark?" she raised her eyebrows. "Sheila! Come on! Just tell me."She shrugged. "You wouldn't believe me anyway." She half smiled. "I could show you." Ok, so show me."She glanced around us. "Not here. It'd take too long, anyway. After school, you know where the smokehouse is?" a tool shed on the back edge of the school property. I nodded. "Ok, meet me there as soon as you can." I let her arm go and she rubbed her wrist. "Quite a grip." She seemed to be thinking of. The last alarm on the freighter brought McCock back to near full awareness,"Stop thrusters, ahead two hundred gravities. Helm steer three four zero to come alongside at five k clicks. Point defence track her. How many missiles forward?"McCock's orders had gone over Sally's response but Cowboy's and Claude's responses came,"PD one and three tracking." One load left forward. That last salvo was lost – fratricide." "Shriek" guard frequency please." On" Solarian freighter; heave to."Slow looked.