"Talk to me, Bren. I'm asking you to let me help, as your first officer and as a friend."Bren leaned forward to rest his elbows on the table. "You des...rve the full story." Then he stopped, not knowing where to start."I started repairing and flying ships when I was eighteen. Anatoray had that stupid flight restriction even back then. By the time I was twenty-two, I was running courier missions with Carolina Forrester." The future queen of Anatoray." Empress." Bren corrected softly, "She wanted. As I struggled to get my breathing under control, I sensed slight movement behind me. Another cock protruded from the hole of the out-of-order stall. It was brownish, shorter and thicker, looking hard as teakwood. I thought it was probably one of the Hispanic guys I’d seen playing basketball. I slid around on the stool and took it into my mouth, hearing a groan on the other side of the thin wall. I wanted more. I hadn’t had nearly enough. Precum immediately filled my mouth and I knew this one. They all were pretty much aware of this unusually rare trait but seldom drew attention to it because it might cause them to be vilified for being spawn of the devil, a personage who was much on the mind of the notoriously superstitious inhabitants of the region.Maureen was an uncommonly pretty girl and grew up to be an attractive woman even after losing three children in childbirth. Her husband Donald was so sad that he ran away to the docks by the bay and joined the crew of the first. " I..." I tried again."And another thing," she bore on relentlessly. "Think about this. We're dealing with something here that can change reality, can change minds and memories. How do I know this is even real? Maybe this whole thing is a fantasy created by my keepers; maybe I'll wake up in the next instant and find myself back in that cave about to be turned into another sex toy, be paraded in front of an audience and told who gets to rape me next. Maybe."But because that's a possibility,.