Linda and I go more times to the town that is nearby. “Nearby”—I laugh to myself when I realize how easily I may now say this of a place that in...my life before would have required two days of hard travel to reach. I laugh, too, when I remember how great it seemed to me on our first visit, how very large and with so many people; now I know it to be only small among the great centers of people that exist now.Winter is ended and the trees and plants now bloom. In the time when this begins to. "We'd arrived at our first class, so the stupid conversation was pushed to the side by my saying "Good morning" to my friends in class.Mackenzie took a dim view of my way of exchanging greetings, standing beside me and glaring.Alexis - with her legs around my waist and my hands under her ass to hold her up - nodded her head toward Mackenzie, asking me loud enough for everyone in the room to hear, "What's wrong with prune face?" Are you sure 'prune'? I thought 'lemon'. Last night I took. She pushed several red curls off her forehead and grinned at the brunette."Another drink?"Myva checked her money pouch on her belt and her face turned sour. She shook her head remorsefully, sighing as she went back to propping her head in her hands."I need to fuck, Bemma." Do you now, girl?" She gestured around the place. "Plenty o' drunk women here who would love to fuck ya brains out."Myva frowned and then grinned. She pushed herself unsteadily off the bar and opened her arms. "You're right,. “That takes care of that, what about breathing? I’m not a fan of passing out possibly dying from lack of air!” Twitty snapped at Skylos.Skylos held up a small mask with a hose and a small box at the other end of the hose. “We can use these emergency air breathers, or had everyone forgot that we had them?” Twitty nodded as she grabbed it from Skylos heading to the airlock.“Well?” Twitty said with exasperation. “You said we need to hurry! Let’s go!”Skylos nodded as he donned another emergency air.