Natasha knew it was too small to be one of her girls.Then Ma followed; all flab and folds looking older than her years, gapped teeth and snot filled n...se.Then the geek twins both naked. Their bodies were black and blue. Natasha mind raced. "Fuck, it looked like the family had been kicking the shit out of them for fun."Then the cop his chest bare cigar back in his mouth. He stopped at the top of the stairs and allowed Pa to pass.The girls gave a group groan.Pa rode in.Michelle was in her full. He had been draped, face up, over the crotch of the tree and even that slow movement caused his back muscles to scream at the abuse they had taken; and at the long period of unnatural strain caused his position. Shaking with strain, his face and hands drenched with cold sweat and his belly cramping with nausea, he looked at the carnage his wreck had caused.There was a swathe of mangled and ragged stumps, smashed and torn branches along the trail his flyer had plowed through the forest top.. None of them gave bad reports, but then again, none of them were wildly enthusiastic about the experience. They wouldn’t say why. Curiosity was driving her mad. She had to have that android! When Philip entered the lounge, she was drinking water with a twist. Philip’s sensors immediately detected that she was not drinking alcohol. ‘Hi, Philip,’ she greeted him. ‘Hello, Ginger. How are you today?’ ‘Sober. I still want to see your equipment,’ she frankly stated. ‘How do you feel about that?’ ‘I. And in fact shedid half-rise and hug me and she did indeed cry. "Oh my honey," shemoaned. She cried for several minutes, but quietly, in delicateexpulsions of breath (Martha Jane was always a very quiet, very fem-inine, even a very elegant crier. I have never been able to forgetit). For a while she held me, rocking to and fro, not letting go ofme for a long time until she fell back listlessly, sniffling, andput a kleenex to her eyes and nose. She said, almost to herself,"We are gonna go.