"Do you work out?"I nodded. Now I knew I was being cross-examined."Fit body – you were always handsome, you know. Nice car, nice house. But Manchest...r?" I worked for a bank in London until just under two years ago. It's cheaper and less stressful up here." Different job?" she asked. It was an offhand question, but I thought she was eager to know all about my life. Why?"You could say that," I said, but no more. She would have to work harder to get whatever it was she wanted."Enough about me," I. Chavez, I know what I have said. I also know to whom I said it. And it is not what is to be done. Is Captain Ziang in the communications compartment?" I'm here, Colonel," came the captain's voice."Excellent," he said. "Captain, you agree that, in light of today's events, under terms of our rather complicated charter I have current command of the mission?" I agree." Then these are my instructions. Should the natives succeed in re-initiating hostilities toward us two, there is to be no further. I watched intently as the rest of the people got on the bus. I knew I could pick out any weirdoes or psychotic passengers. I saw none. The last two people to get on the bus were a younger couple probably about my age in their early twenties. A guy and girl. The guy was tall and he dwarfed the girl he walked behind. They came right to where I was sitting and said hello as they grabbed the two seats across the aisle from me. The girl was hot. She was small, thin and sexy. Her long straight shiny. And now I got to see it first hand. You took his pounding like a champ. You can have Mike as often as you want.”“Don’t I get a say in this,” I replied. “And maybe Alice feels differently.”“Do you, Alice?” asked Lisa.“I stand ready and willing any time you want me, providing Lisa says it’s ok.”“I still want to deal with Rob. THAT was not with permission what you did with him, or rather what he did with you. I have an idea for a date for him.”“You want to set him up with a date?” asked Alice..