"'So we cannot win', some of you may be saying right now. That is not true. In order to take this planet from us the WestHem marines are going to have...to march from their beachheads to our cities and occupy them. Sounds simple? It would be if not for the Martian Planetary Guard. This is exactly the situation the MPG was formed to prevent in the first place. Now you have all seen Internet shows deriding our planetary guard force, proclaiming it to be nothing more than a 'speed bump', good only. How're you feeling?"It was a few more moments before the girl came around enough to answer, and the realization that she was naked took a little longer to register. When it did, however, she became as hostile as ever."Who took my clothes off? You? You pervert!" she growled at Colin."If it matters, your friend got you undressed. Your clothes were soaking wet, and it works better to have bare skin when you're trying to warm somebody up again," he let her know."Get away from me, you ... you. He secured the cage in position on the load-bed of the cart andclosed up the tail-gate, leaving the little animal staring around her andbutting her head tentatively against the bars of her prison, puzzled by herinability to pass their obstruction, before lowering her blunt snout into herbedding and beginning to graze, fouling herself as she did.. After leashing thetwo younger animals to the rear of the cart, he untethered the women betweenthe shafts, flipped open their blinkers to the. "Can I take that as a 'yes'?" he asked with a smile."YES!" She disengaged from him, and faced him, holding out her left hand."Move the claddagh ring to the right hand, Pookie," Warren told her. She did so, and held out her hand again. Warren took the ring out of the box and put it on her hand."I did good with the size," Warren observed. It fit perfectly."You did good, period, my love," she told him. She held her hand up to her face. "My God, it's so beautiful," she sighed."No more beautiful.