The stars above shimmered as rain began to fall and the inner symbols ignited.Yellow flames races around the inside of the star as my blood felt like ...t was boiling. I held still and gritted my teeth as the earth shook and the outer glyphs began to glow a pearl color. Icy cold swept through me, making the fire and the pain from it sting. The circle erupted in a wall of white that seemed to reach into the sky and beyond.I stilled the shaking as it felt like my muscles were slowly freezing solid.. “It’s not important,” Gath said dismissively. “I suppose you heard that I’m being shipped out?”“I did.” He gave a cynical look. “Pretty funny how the low seniority medic on the base gets to go to Mars—the medic who just happens to be the one who came up with the data flooding scheme.”“Yeah,” Gath said bitterly. “For all the torkin’ good that idea did.”“It did more good than you know,” Sparky told him. “Have you been following the bulletin boards and watching the media reports? Zing and his band. " Yeah, he was a pretty private sort of a bloke when you think of it. Jesus, I'll certainly miss him." I think we all will mate, he was like a father to me and he treated me like a son." I better let the café bloke know that you will be delayed for a bit." We can't let it wait too long Ernie, I see if Dom is up to it and we can come over tomorrow, that's a respectable wait don't you think?" I think Fred would agree with you on that, I give the fellow a call and let him know when you're. It would humiliate the woman."Have you ever tried it with another woman?" Laura said in a squeaky voice. She cleared her throat. "I never..." No, I've never done it," Millie said quickly. "I said I was thinking, well, really, wondering what it would be like to go to bed with a woman."Laura drained her glass, her mind awhirl with images of herself and Millie naked in bed together. "You must tell me what it's like when you do it," Laura said. "I'd be curious to know. I'm not all that experienced.