We tried to look at it in a positive way, but it's hard to do that when the pain of loss is fresh and sharp.Donna's immediate reaction to the loss of ...er erstwhile sister was to become very withdrawn. She, like us, found no joy in daily living. She began coming to our room at night and asking to sleep with us. We allowed her to do so, and she appeared to become a little more cheerful. She'd lie down between us on her tummy and ask to be held. One or both of us would cuddle her for a moment and. "L-lap dance? From some pretty young thing?" He asked and laughed."Yeah, yeah of course," his friend said and patted Charlie's back.Charlie turned in his seat to take a look at the beauty the surrounded him. He stared for a long time until finally he'd made the decision. "Get me that gorgeous redhead over there! Please! Damn!"The blonde nodded. "Hey you got it. Let me go ask her to do a lap dance for you."Gary felt his blood boiling. This drunk fuck wanted to have Ginger dance for him? Shit!". She stood, stretching her arms above her head, and began to walk around the circumference of the room again as she admired the artistry of the carvings. The reliefs surely held great meaning, but she would wait until the computer had deciphered the Krell alphabet before attempting to interpret them. She stood before one of the larger scenes, the engraving depicting what looked like dozens of cigar-shaped Broker craft landing in a clearing as the Krell looked on from the cover of a mangrove. "Eoin chuckled. "She isn't what most fathers are looking for in prospective daughters-in-law today!"Both men shared their amusement over that and I simply crossed my arms and glared at them, raising their hilarity even further. "Yuck it up, boys! Yuck it up!"Eoin got himself back under control and sighed, looking at me with speculative eyes. "I would take it from your story that nobody has tested your capacities and abilities?"I looked at him like he was crazy. "When in the last couple of weeks.