.” Clessik murmured thoughtfully. “All ships, prepare for pursuit. They might be able to temporarily move much faster than we can.”“They may r...ach a safe jump zone and then we’ll lose them,” Gollant cursed.“Depends on if our charges go off before or after they jump ... assuming they do.”“How long until they do?” Gollant asked the Bridge.“Eight rotations,” the AI replied.“Plot the direction they will probably go,” Clessik ordered. “Get any Heavy Fighters we’ve got headed that way and hope they. It's disgustingly lovey-dovey around here." Yeah, and now we're here," Warren laughed. "The lovey-dovey-ness just quadrupled." Yep," Evan snorted."Ev. You need a man," Sophie teased him."I just had a relationship end." Oh. Damn, Evan, I'm sorry," Sophia said."Yeah. And there's too many fucking straight guys in the world," Evan said in disgust, making Warren and Sophie crack up. "Anyhow. Where's Betsy?" Liz has her. She's coming with us for supper, but she insisted on playing Auntie Liz all. A damp warmness which needed urgent attention. Oh God, not now! How could her body betray her like this? She moved from foot to foot and tried to cross her legs. Again it was ‘darling’ Debra who drew the attention of the others to it. “Debra dear, take her to the bathroom but keep an eye on her. I suspect if she gets half a chance she’ll do something disgusting.” Meagan could FEEL the young witch grinning as she chuckled... “Yes of course Gran, I fully understand.” Meagan thought that her. She is now a 39 year old man. He has not had as much of anopportunity to deal personally with how the shift affects hisdevelopment because he is dealing with family issues first. He works athome with Jake as they had done before the Shift. He was not weakwilled, but did tend to go along and give in rather than deal withconflict unless it was absolutely necessary. Jake used this to get hisown way. They have two children Mattie and Little Jake. Their incomecomes mostly from speculation in the.