He was still sitting on the floor looking dazed and confused. It was as if his mind couldn’t comprehend how he had ended up there.“There’s an em...ty chair at the table for you, now.”Shocked, President Rohrbach said, “You just killed Neyer.”Pen Aleksy said, “My job is to ensure that the government of Misera abides by the terms of the treaty. He was violating the treaty. I enforced it. Do you have a problem with that?”The answer was ‘yes,’ but he wasn’t going to say it.“Well ... I don’t ... You. “I’m sorry I’m being so horrible to you, Evie. This is all very hard for me,” said Alison with disarming honesty as she gently licked her friend’s lips. “All this ‘love’ shit has fucked with everything I ever thought I knew.”“I know, Alison – and I have spent my entire life torn between the life of pleasure my parents sacrificed so much to give me, and the fact that they gave up so much pleasure for my sake…”“Do you mean you think they loved you?” asked Alison, painfully. “I mean, do you think. But this summer, when I realized that she would soon be going to college, I started to treat her as an adult love interest, and we had gotten together at the start of the summer, and admitted to each other that we had both thought about it for years. This had also given me my first real sexual experiences, besides for some drunken spin-the-bottle and casual rubbing in my stupid freshman year. ‘That’s so sweet.’ she said, and giggled. She leaned over against me, and put her hand on my chest. She. Smith?” Allison asked.Emanuel watched her shake her head. “Your homeroom teacher. Also, she’s the reason why our AP Chemistry class passes so many students...” she paused again “despite so many students failing the AP exam.”Uh oh Manny. Her ‘bird’ students may look to take this out on us.You mean despite the fact that we had nothing to do with it?That’s why Ms. Jenkins used the word ‘rumors’. And judging from the way the crowds have behaved so far...I don’t know if I’d take it that far.