“T- The- The most valuable treasure on the planet...” An old man, second level Martial Master, in a golden robe and a long white hair stuttered on...his plastic chair beside Gid Chu.“How could you have succumbed to the enticement of learning your insights? Why must you be so young?! Why can’t you understand that you are still young?!” Nam Ner implored, knowing it is too late.“Zax...” Gid Chu said in a low voice, struggling to utter the name without venting. The calm and calculated, the peacemaker. The rest of my crew is solid,” I said.“I’m going to see about granting him an early leave. He can join the reserves that Admiral Redmill is bringing and I’ll take a replacement from the pool,” Captain Prescott said.“Colonel,” the AI called out. “A ship has emerged in the system. It appears to have arrived from Confederacy space.”“Well,” the Colonel said. “Do we have communications with the ship?”“Receiving,” the AI said. “The automatic identification signal is calling out Donegal. “Sleep sounds like a good idea, you two should try it. Maybe it'll help work off some of that energy you two always seem to have,” Marie said.It finally came back to me what we wanted to tell Chris and Stephanie, but under the new circumstances and with Jim and Marie standing there I figured it would be best to wait until tomorrow to say anything. We looked at them in the bed with a look of gratitude on their face and smiled at them as we cut out their light, closed the door, and went back to. Ross was a GP - general practitioner - in a small medical clinic in a small village in the south of England. He was a married man in his late forties with black hair and a trim physique. He looked good for a man almost hitting fifty; even his female patients thought so too. Although he loved his wife, he was having it away with his sexy new secretary. One rainy afternoon while the surgery was quiet, Dr. Ross stepped out of his office and saw his mistress looking bored behind the reception desk.