"Mark saluted and left. The Adjutant gave him a bundle of papers."What's your reaction, Mark?" he asked."Flattered," said Mark with a grin, "and intri...ued, but I'm going to have to discuss this with my family. What are my chances of leave over Christmas or are you going to nobble me for Orderly Officer as a bachelor?" Well," he said, "my first choice is always you National Savages but on the other hand I am open to bribery and corruption. On the other hand, if you decide not to take up the. We used her long hair to hide her face. With the ad written, we chose two sites that have a lot of local people listed. In one day, we had more than a dozen responses! Most could be eliminated immediately, but a few were set aside for later perusal. Tina also started her own search. We learned that finding just the right guy was going to take some work! Each night when I got home we looked over the ad responses plus any guys she may have found in her search. It became another ritual each night. "You're acting as bad as Dad does." What do you mean? Does your father touch you where he shouldn't?" No, not me," the girl said in a tear-choked voice. "But he did my friend and it was more than just touching." She buried her face against her uncle's neck and he held her in a comforting embrace."Are you sure?" Yes... Penny told me. He told he was going to marry her and she... like... she let him do it to her. I hate him!" Remember kitten, he's a man without a wife and he needs... like... he. Save me, right? Bring me back again? I mean, why would you do it once, then not do it again? Do I only get one re-do?”“Re-do,” Frank chortled. “That’s good.”“No, honey,” Tia comforted her. “If something happens to you before you learn how to do the things we can do, we’ll protect you.”“That’s why we brought you here,” Tara confirmed. “We think you have the potential to become...”“Immortal,” Tia added, letting the cat out of the bag, bigtime.“Immortal? You mean like live forever?” Tally.