You will not seek help from your homeworld?” Maza asked, surprised.“We can’t,” Fielding explained, “it would take about a year to return to ...oalition space and then make it back here with reinforcements. The Bugs are already probing the system for weaknesses.”“My apologies, it’s just that your technology is so impressive to us. We assumed that you could communicate over great distances instantly, or perhaps travel faster than we can.”“Don’t worry,” Jaeger said, trying to reassure her. “The. Two sets of doting violet eyes gazed back and he could see a sense of peace in them which he’d never seen before. They looked calm, relaxed, and very much in love, the dark demons from their past finally exorcised from their souls and gone for good.“I feel different,” Tashana said softly, her hand absent-mindedly circling her swollen belly. “Lighter now ... as though I’ve been unburdened from all that pain. It’s like there were three stages to my life: my childhood with Irillith on Valaden, the. Of the ones who could place me, and who seemed happy that I'd taken the initiative to get back in touch, they'd both quit smoking pot. There really wasn't anyone at work that I knew well enough to even discuss marijuana with, although I was sure that quite a few indulged. I felt that I was stymied and had made all the effort to help Donna out that I reasonably could. I didn't want to place myself in jeopardy just so she could get high. All right, maybe my thoughts weren't that altruistic, but. My body is now automatically cringing, trying to exhaust this seemingly infinite amount of energy stored inside me. Finally Ethan has stopped fucking me, my center twitching as I come back to earth, and I shiver. I feel him remove his hands from my waist, panting heavily along with me. I shiver again, and when that one stops, another takes over. When I'm a shaking mess beneath him, Ethan picks me up and holds me. Jesus sweet mother fucking Christ. That was like nothing I've ever felt before. .