"I can tell we need to calm you down, open your mouth and suck on my thumblike a good sissy fag," he demanded.I recoiled. "No way," I said."Then we'r... done talking, your wife will get some very concerning pictureswhen you least expect them," he spoke softly and with control. I knew hewould do it, he had nothing to lose."Fine." I leaned forward and took his manly thumb into my mouth."Now, isn't that better?"I nodded meekly, it was a little bit exciting, but I wasn't going to lethim know. For a long time, I tried not to do anything I thought would destroy his love and respect, but I soon realized love doesn't work that way." I was a slut, Darla. I fucked around; I mean I really fucked around. I dated a lot my senior year in high school, and fucked almost every boy or man who asked me out. As you can imagine, I got asked out a lot. I started playing around with group sex the summer after I graduated high school when I fucked two boys my age, not once either, but a bunch of times,. This was a very very long game, and it took a special kind of desperation to even want to play it.You can't send a live crew on a thousand-year journey that never comes close to any stars. A generation-ship would need more fuel for life support on such a journey than it would for deceleration. The fleet they designed was effectively a big dumb intergalactic comet: machinery and gene banks and artificial intelligences wrapped in a giant geode of protective minerals and ice. Everything would just. Two more of our salesmen left the company when they couldn't meet Jan's standards. She hired two to replace them, one male and one female. In the meantime, Rita was cutting quite a swath through her territory. My hunch that she was going to be quite spectacular was proving to be right. I think the key to her was that she related to the people she was dealing with. She was one of "them." I talked to her now and then just to let her know how pleased I was with her progress and I know Jan followed.