He collapsed into his bed and fell asleep. The next day at school, Cream felt awkward. She avoided eye contact with Shadow and skipped classes she had...with him, something very rare for her as she was usually a very good student. She was hanging out behind the school bathrooms when she heard what sounded like singing coming from around the corner. She peeked around and spotted her math teacher Ms. Blaze trying to light a classy cigar while humming. Blaze swore and threw the lighter to the. Scott considered that his biggest weakness. Without that information it was impossible to gauge the scale of the job in front of them or gather intelligence that might help in planning defences. He decided he would need to sacrifice at least one of the available Broadswords to continue the work of placing jump reactors and communications devices around the galaxy. That was the only idea he had come up with to try and pinpoint where the iLOX base was.Next he considered the near space. Jeremiah bumped into a man coming out of the saloon. ‘Little bastard. Watch where you’re goin,’ the man said in an angry voice. He aimed a kick at the boy and it made him angrier when he missed and fell on his backside. ‘C’mon Billings, he’s just a boy,’ the man’s friend said. ‘The law shouldn’t let bastard kids like him run around town with decent folk,’ Billings replied. ‘You heard the stories about his Ma and that Santee feller.’ His friend pulled Billings in back into the saloon but not. ” I began to calculate how many “drinks” I could buy with just three pieces of clothing. I wished I’d worn more. “Oh,” she continued, “they take cash too, or sometimes just a special favor.” “What sort of favors?” My eyes darting downward to her thong again and again. I thought the fabric between her legs was turning darker red. “Well, I once had to ‘fall in love’ with the ugliest, loneliest girl in the room for the rest of the night. It was actually quite fun. We ended up dating for a while.”.