No response. None. Ruth leaned over her again and pressed her lips once more against her soft ones, then bit harshly into them. She felt Elizabeth's b...dy quiver under hers but when she looked at her she was still the same, staring straight up; but her eyes were brimming with tears. A trickle of blood ran from her lips where Ruth had bitten her."I'M sorry, Elizabeth, but you must come out of it. Don't you hear me at all?" Ruth pleaded. She received nothing by way of answer. She was searching her. The problem wasn't with HER! It was ME!!! I WAS SO SHY, that I couldn't stand for her to see I was watching her, ALL THE TIME!!! I wanted to look at her every time she was near me, but when I saw SHE was looking at ME, WATCHING HER, I would get red faced, and stammer, and end up having to leave the room. She, sometimes would follow me, and tell me that it was okay for me to look at her. She appreciated the way I looked at her, and hoped it would make me happy, and want to see MORE of her. That. When the Geller Field rebounded back to its normal shape, all they could hear within the impacted area was a single voice sobbing.Vynn forbade any from entering. The sobbing persisted and crew avoided the area with perfectly logical dread.The fields remained sturdy. Morale did not. Dozens of fights had to be broken apart. A spree murder slew twelve in the cistern-pump station, their corpses left where they had fallen. He was caught by two local armsmen, found in a locked and unused storage. In fact, I was pretty impressed with him." So are all the women", K'athlen chuckled. "He's in great demand, and I think he enjoys being off planet. It's the only time the poor man gets any peace!" I think you misunderstood what we said", added M'aida. "We might strive to direct men into safe occupations, but we don't coerce, or force them to do it. They make their own choices, just as the women do. I just wish more of them were like Captain Bergath. Sadly, he is in the minority of real men."At.