I kept a hold of her hand to continue to let her know I wasnt going to go anywhere. After I knew she was totally asleep I turned the television on and...watched sports highlights with the sound off. I guess I must have fallen asleep, because what seemed like five minutes was actually 3 hours later a nurse came in and was checking her vitals. "Well hey there cutie, Hows is she?" the nurse whos name was kristina ask me. "Well other than the pain she...." about that time I saw her stirring in the. Everyone had been working at a furious pace, and then time froze. Caleb’s warning of a potential Sa’arm attack was followed only a few moments later by a huge object transiting the 10655 and a rain of debris slicing through the three tethered ships. In the 10655, the air frosted as it evacuated.Shellie felt a flash of pain, and half her left arm was gone. Her suit sealed itself over the gaping hole and injected painkillers while nanites rushed to stop the bleeding. She looked dazedly around and. “You don’t have a girlfriend?” asked Shelley, “Do you like English girls?” He confessed that he found English girls very pretty.I simply cut straight to the chase. “Do you think Shelley’s pretty?” I asked.“Yeah, you’re beautiful,” he said, looking her right in the eye, “you’ve got beautiful eyes.”Shelley giggled, and thanked him for the compliment. “You’ve got nice eyes too,” she said to him, “and it’s nice when you look at me.”He wasn’t quite sure how to take that, but played up to it all the. "Jane answered a few questions and some jokes were passed aroundreferring to earlier parties. Jane gave me a look."Max, can I see you for a moment."I followed Jane into her office and at her signal closed the door.Without thinking I swept my skirt with a hand before sitting down andwith legs crossed at the knee looked across the desk as deadpan as Icould."This isn't like the fundraising picnic Max. If you don't want to come Iwon't force you. I think you should go, it's a lot of fun and.