Dave knew that the New Year's incident had been hard on her and, even though her parents had eventually accepted her spending time with Alec, they had...'t really accepted him. Alec described his own last meeting with her parents and Dave could see that her parents were finally giving Alec a chance to be part of their lives. Dave knew how important Shauna's family was to her and he told her he was very happy for both of them. He could see their love continue to blossom and he felt jealous - he. ..“ It was amazing to think of some fifty lovely young women all being held captive on this very ship. Being held captive... and SUFFERING. For that, Quentin now realised all too well, was what lay at the heart of this regime. These girls where paying dearly for past misdemeanours. As they should; and as his Julia would.Fingers snapped and more drinks were poured. I'd better start going easy on the booze or he'd feel sleeoy that afternoon, thought Quentin. And, gazing lecherously at Kim's. The Japanese sukiyaki and five aspirins had left nothing but an empty cavern in his stomach.Then he got in his MG and drove out to car dealer, Warner told himself that sometimes the opportunity comes to a man to do something, and he better be ready to grab at-it. He hated to get rid of the little bomb, but he parked and collected the papers out of the glove compartment. He got out and handed the papers to the man. Just like that.“Three hundred is all she’s worth,” the dealer. This was no longer a scouting mission, but one of destruction and elimination of the alien influence on Urth. All three of us were ready to pounce as soon as we caught sight of an alien, so the aliens were in a lot more trouble than they could have possibly imagined.Our next stop was in a room filled with communication equipment. There were three operators sitting at consoles, and we eliminated them with quick decapitating sweeps of our plasma jets. Fortunately, the jet was so hot that it.