. well, another sex just as delicate as itself?" It would be better to be free of either if one did not wish it," she said, shrinking away from me."Yo... are free," I said, moving away from her as well. "You may leave this ship at any place where we find land. But as I learned myself not three months ago when I was new to her, your food and lodging on this ship are not free. Each of us must work to keep her shipshape and provisioned. The question is," and now I moved in again, pressing my lips. " I turned to look at him. "I know whatyou're thinking... how does he know I keep the glue in there." Hewinked like he was telling me a secret of his trade. "Silly bugger. Ibeen here for hours. You think I just sat around doing nothing, waitingfor you to come home? Now get the goddam glue. And while your there,grab one of those sewing needles."This guy had thought this through. I picked up the glue and the needle,then eased past him and headed down the hall to the bedroom. He wasless than a. "Yes. I am pretty sure my legs are intact. They are stuck, but I don't feel any pain there. Just an unpleasant tingling," Rachel explained."Can you wiggle your toes?" My legs are so numb that I am not sure if my toes move at all."The firefighters arrived and immediately prepared to cut the door. Rachel gave them a faint smile, then closed her eyes and waited to be freed from the wreckage. A minute later the door fell off with a screech of metal."Have you been in an accident before? Your leg is. “So,” she said brightly, “What do you have planned for your time off?” “I’ll visit my family in the Palisades,” said Hayden, “and then I’ll probably go up to Provincetown.” “Oooh, I love the Bahamas,” cooed Kristen. “Anyplace that’s warm!” “It’s in Massachusetts,” corrected Hayden, “out on the Cape.” “Oh,” said Kristen. “Oooohhhhh,” she added, nodding her head. She now remembered hearing the design crew talking about their vacations in P-town.“I don’t think there’s anything there for me,” said.