“Yeah, but you’ll all miss me more,” Mason bellows loudly sitting back in his seat, crossing his arms over his massive chest. “Especially you,...Matthews.”“Is that sexual harassment I detect?” the woman asks.“Is it working?”“Not at all.”“Well then, I guess not.” Mason laughs heartily bringing a smile to Matthews face. The rest of the team laughs including Nash.When the laughter of the moment finally dies down Nash went back into his command mode. “Get some rest. We may not be getting much of it. "I can't keep saying 'assholes'; especially if I want to get in touch with a specific one. And I'd like you to show yourselves; I want to see what I'm dealing with."The voice replied, "I will show ourself. You may regret your request, however."The wall lit up, and showed... something. Or somethings. The creature (creatures?) had said "I", but they'd also said "ourself". Steve stared at the image, shuddering, but it was so utterly alien that he couldn't really resolve it. "Shit. You weren't. Eventually,” Brnnt replied as the Council had sat through a venomous diatribe by the aggrieved Archimandrite.“For our supremacy, Beog’s name must be protected!” Ambost added.“So get your pets in the TechnoYr’ch to do so,” Karkol sneered. “It’s their systems that have been hacked.”“They would, only your demands for better weapons have them occupied!”“Don’t be silly. Their system analysts and repair crews are not on the production lines,” Karkol hit back.“This I know to be true,” Brnnt added.“You. After a while, I found myself wanting there to be more of them. As it got colder and later he pulled out a blanket and we snuggled on his couch.The snuggling made me feel so warm and so good I couldn't believe it. He started kissing me and we forgot about the movie. It was incredible just trading kisses; long, wet, gentle kisses without any ulterior motive. Most of the guys I'd been with had simply gone for the gold right away and didn't bother kissing me or anything like that. What I'd done.