‘Alright. Since you don’t really appear to be in the loop on this, I’ll start from the beginning…’ Brynn spent the next hour recounting ever...thing that had happened to her, and Idris, since they left the ship. Even talking about the memory that Captain Johansen had shared with her. ‘So Kadri brought me down to the launch deck so I could come here, and…well, that’s everything. You know what I know now. What should we do next?’ The image nodded slowly. ‘It is likely that you would benefit from a. ..because we did a game.." "A game?" "yes...a dirty one...and went bad, that's why i wanted to talk to you as soon as possible, this story is driving me crazy." "i don't understand" "nobody does" "you are wasting my time, i will leave in the next five minutes if you don't tell me the whole story" "ok, fine. sorry. I...I have some fantasies..." "we all do" "Sure, but...i wanted to..to...with my boyfriend...." "and he reacted badly..." "On the contrary! he loves me!" "i still don't understand". You don’t have to be afraid anymore.’ ‘Will you hold me?’ Gwen whispered, barely audible. Steve took her into his arms and held her, unable to keep from shaking as the tears streamed down his face. ‘I love you, Steve,’ Gwen sighed, and then was silent. Steve laid her back on the floor, feeling her neck for a pulse, when he was thrown back onto his back. He looked down in shock at the blood burbling up from the hole in his shirt, and his eyes focused beyond the wound. Stetsenko stood there,. “Put him through,” I told the AI.“Commander, I’m Major Walter Connor with the Second Military District, Admin section. I have a problem you need to fix.”Oh, great. Staff guys. Today was rapidly turning into maximum suck.“What can I help with, Major?”“You have two crewmen who have unfilled concubine slots. I need you to order them to take care of that right away,” he intoned.Lance Corporal Tim Wilson, my crypto and analysis wizard, and PFC Walter Douglas, my music lover-slash-analyst, both had.