I felt pretty groggy, but the pain from my neck wasn't nearly as bad."I think I'm okay. I don't hurt as much now. How long was I out," I asked in kind...of a raspy voice."Only a couple hours, but we need to get those tests done before you can leave." I think I'm up to it now. Let's get it over with."For the next couple hours they did a lot to me. I just kind of spaced out during that time, but I remember doing a CAT scan and several other things like that. I really didn't know what was going on. But, it was also not surprising how a simple touch by one of them or catching one of them with a lingering gaze upon my exposed body would cause me to instantly become aroused. And, though I could frequently focus around that arousal, the evidence of it would be shown on my body through a flushed response in my skin, erect nipples, or a moist spot left on a chair when I got up to leave. The other indicators of my arousal were like a tease, but the damp marks left on chairs were like a neon. Helen tapped her com, snarling. “Gunny, get those idiots back here so they don’t get fucking fried on the next orbital pass.”“You heard Lord Winsom!” Gunnery Sergeant Malinowski bellowed at the top of his lungs. Helen was snapped right back to her hideous months at boot camp and started to stiffen up – and the elves, for a moment, lost their grace as they stumbled and turned back to look at him, wide eyed. “Get the fuck under cover – those lasers are coming back!”The run to the San Fran arc was. I will wait until you have these.”Raka called to Vickie, “Lamp and string, please, Vickie.”Vickie at once brought over a second lamp, and a large coil of string. She looked at the surprised John and informed him, “Raka has been prepared for such an eventuality.”“I think I am outnumbered here,” John smiled stoically as he said this. He stood to one side as Raka lit her lamp and slung her coil of string over one shoulder. Her diminutive size made no difference to her determination.They set off,.