Sensing that the latter would irritate his new guest more, he chuckled in an admittedly patronizing way. “I fail to see the humor.” “The humor, ...iss Banks, is that you make too many assumptions. I am not going anywhere. Your aunt appointed me as a live in caretaker and this is my home.” “Well sir, I’m sorry to hear that. Because I am here now, it belongs to me and I planned to stay here while I’m in town. Clearly we can not both stay here, so I am afraid you will have to go.” Vic looked her. It seemed as my arrival brought them out of their trance. “Who is this lady?” Katie asked me as she turned her head.“Let me try to explain” my Aunt started.“Explain what?”“I just heard you two having such a wonderful time, and…”“And what?”“Well, I just had to, it’s just been, I just had”Clearly Priss was at a loss for words. I had not seen her so taken aback by anything and now she was just stammering.“I just saw you two, and, and, well, this happened. You should take it as a compliment.” It. Helen looked Jex straight in the eyes, ‘OK here is the deal. My body is yours until they open the cage. Use me any way you chose.’ ‘Thats it? No conditions?’ Jex asked, puzzled. Helen was insistent, ‘It is a simple statement of fact. We don’t have enough people to post guard on the perimeter. When he leaves there is nobody to watch the cage. My only security is that you are not likely to risk spending the night locked up with an abomination.’ Jex had more objections, ‘If I wanted to force. She looked right at me, frowning. “I couldn’t just stand around, okay? I’ve got enough energy in my nuclear taffy reactor that I want to just burn a hole in the ship. I don’t like that we’re going to a Cam planet.”“But you suggested it.” I said, shifting to my human form. I put my palms on the kitchen counter as I lay there, looking seriously at P90. For some weird reason, P90’s cheeks flushed a dark red, turning her pinkish skin nearly into gumballs of raw embarrassment. I grinned at her. She.