Before leaving, we shot the captives with 6 hours worth of stun.We had to go up four levels and nearly across the radius of the ship. The bridge was b...ried at the core of the ship since there was no need for external windows. We expected to have to fight our way, but we reached the door to the bridge without meeting any opposition. Was the captain that confident of his safety or just that stupid? We would find out in a few minutes!Cicero reported that they had reached the engine room as easily. "They will not be able to move quickly or stealthily." Indeed," Rohea said. "But with six, we increase the chance that at least one of them will return with news." What of the rest of the soldiers?" Kaliv asked. "Should we wait here until we hear news of the scouts?" No. We must keep marching. We are too close to Yaklo. We must bring the war to the enemy's lands." What if the enemy lies just ahead of us, waiting to strike? Perhaps that is what happened to the scouts," Kaliv said."We will have. ” * * * Lisa contemplated her plans during the rest of the trip tothebeach. Being a normal sixteen year old girl, she wasnaturallycurious about her own sexuality, and had experimented withsex withthe neighborhood boys since she was Carrie’s age. But theeroticexcitement she felt every time she made it with a boy hadplateaued, and she couldn’t recapture the tingly excitement that shehad first felt all those years before. But Carrie had changed that.Not concerned about. ?So you can make trouble for them? Get them mad at me too? Grow up,? she said sharply. Her voice was vibrating with her anger.We stood facing one another ? inches from a shouting match. Jennifer?s face was slightly flushed and her nostrils were flaring with every breath. She was angry and I was badly frustrated, a volatile combination. I was also perplexed at the source of her anger. It seemed a bad side effect of the seventy to eighty hours of work continuously demanded of me by the division.