I watched the backslapping and laughing, and I could see the sly, secret handshakes and imagine the deals done behind closed doors. Sally, a commoner ...ike me, never stood a chance when pitted against the might of Eton, Harrow, Oxford, and Cambridge. ‘Thrown to the dogs’ he had said, and I shuddered to think what that entailed. There had to be a fall guy or girl from all this, and despite all that I knew or assumed, Sally was the easy target.The journey home was relativity uneventful. Dad. Princess Maryann had always been keptwell away from the common folks especially the men as the throne of thehuman kingdom had strictly preserved the now 18 orbit-old maiden forthis very purpose - to strengthen Heimanor with a strategic politicalamalgamation.Having the Kingdom of Arendir as an ally had always been King Gorlan'sdream. This would certainly give a boost to his armory in terms offending off the dark forces of Xakath - the mighty warlock from theNorth. His various races of heinous. She didn’t look truly young and beautiful with her eyelids closed but she was relaxed and resting and in my bed.That was enough for me.I would be the first one to admit that I didn’t hold with all this younger generation looseness about cheating and shacking up with anyone for a one-night stand. I knew my mom was certainly not a nun or a Saint after we lost my dad but I figured she had her right to choose what she wanted to do from those other married couples that resented the fact she was. One of the bridge crew was even thrown to the ceiling when artificial gravity failed for a moment. He splattered there like a fly swatted onto a wall. His thick metallic looking blood dripped from the ceiling, some of which landed on the mother ship commander's head, much to his annoyance.The Gray ship scored the first break though in the shields as volleys of phaser and particle beams traded turns firing.The strike was mid ship. It punched though the shields. It then went through the armor as.