"I'll do that," she said. "Is she coming to tuck you up?"Mark nodded."Well in that case I'd better scarper. Mustn't interfere in that." She gave him a...other quick kiss and slipped out of the room.Mark undressed, did his ablutions, put on his pyjama trousers and slipped into bed.Not long afterwards there was a quiet tap on his door and Victoria slid into the room. She was wearing the blue dressing gown. Her hair shone like burnished gold. She sat on the bed beside him and kissed his forehead. As. I spoke very slowly for I was doing my best not to sound corny: “OK, then. We had a long chat, nothing serious; we just exchanged a few formalities until we got here. I know I shouldn't have brought her. We only started rolling up old stories as we were already sitting on the couch downstairs. We got into a moment of uncomfortable silence just before you broke in.” I didn't continue for a few seconds so Liz took her turn to talk. “And to get over that silly instant you start to make out or. . what are you doing?" Mac gasped as her excitement kept mounting."We are preparing for communion," CPO Merker informed her."Com... communion?" Mac had a confused look on her face.She gaped at her surroundings and could see that the remainder of the congregation were seated around the altar, still naked. Each of them holding a silver cup. The JAG Colonel found this intriguing and wondered what the cups was for.As she tried to regain all of her senses still, she followed the woman that had. As Jules closed his eyes, he wondered how the Marine could switch off like that.Images of the formless blob of heat flashed in his mind, invisible even to Yuta’s superhuman vision, silent save for when it had made its speedy escape. It must have been an Araxie, the specters that the Ranger had described to him, but what were they doing? Why hadn’t they made contact yet? Only time would tell.Jules’ troubled sleep was interrupted by someone shaking him awake, and he opened his itchy eyes to see.