I answered, "GEEZ!"But I continued, "Mrs. Benning asked me to help her in the kitchen saying, 'Ricky, I need your help with making the punch and setti...g it on the serving table okay?' I said okay and we went into the kitchen. She told me to get the punch bowl and put it on the counter and I did. She handed me a can opener and told me to open the juice cans and I did that. She went and got some Vodka and a few other bottles. She told me which cans to pour in and she added a little of this booze. "Alright. So first to ten wins?" Sure." I knew better than to argue that. He never went less than 10. I think it was to keep it fair. He was a basketball player. I was in choir. The odds were always against me. I wasn't bad, but he was really good. And that made the difference.We began and I managed to make the first point, stealing the ball and getting a good aim. We played fair and then it all went out the window. This is how we played. It was like a dance, almost. Mind you a. I was eating when the captain peeked into my office, "did your crates get picked up?"I blinked, "crates?"She smiled, "the ones in your quarters?"I glanced at the other door, "uh ... no. The contact has not shown up or called."She shook her head as she turned to leave, "if they are still here when we lift they are yours."I looked at the door and sighed, "well if nothing else I could open the crates and sell whatever it is in the next port."She laughed and I grinned before I went back to eating.. That you have done quite well. Of course you have. I chose to join our souls because I have great faith in you. And yet, I must admit I did not know you would achieve so much. To think you could have died so early on... no matter! Now, I have a proposition for you: with evil contained beyond time itself, you don't have to stay in a world where war has scarred the land."You find yourself silent, too exhausted to comprehend what Sothis is saying. Noticing this, the goddess continues."From our.