”“Are you sure, sir?”“Are you deaf woman? The man’s come all the way from America to find her! Of course, I’m sure.”“Where is her husb...nd?”“Husband? Dead. Killed in that damn Falklands thing. God Damn civilians. It’s never the soldiers that start wars, James. Oh no, it’s always the damned civilians. Idiots built the bridges of our ships out of aluminum. Lighter and cheaper they said. Oh yes. Lighter and cheaper and more flammable than tissue paper when the rockets fell on ‘em. Poor chap was. Pura 7” se lamba. Muze raha nahi gaya maine uska lunnd hatse pakadte bola tumara lunnd to bahot kadak our mast hai re. Our lunnd ko hatose masaj karne laga samir ab mast ho raha tha. Maine dekha tv par ab ladka lunnd choose raha tha. Our sameer aakh phad phad ke dekh raha tha. Maine turnt niche zukate uska lunnd muh me liya our chousna suru kiya ab samir ko 420 ka current lag gaya our usne mera sir niche dabate pura lunnd mere muh me dal diya. Mere gale tak lunnd chala gaya. Maine jor jorse. If it’s reusable they can pack it up and travel with it, then set it up when they need shelter or when they find other survivors.”Cricket said, “Better yet, why don’t we make the escape pods themselves a reusable construx house. That way, even if the pod goes to an uninhabitable planet, it could still create a house around them and they could live in it until they can be rescued. It would require the occupant to be a citizen to prevent the technology from falling into other hands, but they. And so we had enjoyed long evenings together, doing all the things that come naturally to people in love, and then we had always returned to our individual homes, already longing for the next time we would see each other. And now, he was with me. In bed. We had made love. Ooh, had we made love! And we had slept. Really. Together. I had wondered if he might wake me up with sexual demands in the middle of the night the way my first husband had on that wedding night so many years ago. Had he done.