‘Here, you need this more than I do.’ Once again, I can’t stop smiling as you take the cup and hold it in both hands. Your elbows rest on your l...gs and you huddle over the cup, bringing your mouth to it and sipping carefully to keep from burning your tongue. I notice your legs are covered in goose bumps. ‘Hey… why don’t you come here and I’ll keep you warm,’ I say as I scoot back on the rock and open my legs so you can sit between them. ‘Come on, you will enjoy it more. Promise.’ You stand. I offered to buy her a drink but she insisted on getting me one. Unfortunately I didn't see the pill she slipped into it or realise just how out of it I was becoming when she ushered me outside to get a cab.I don't remember the journey back to her place or arriving there. The next thing I remember after stumbling about outside the nightclub is waking up on a bed with satin sheets. It was while wondering where I was and who I had slept with the night before that I realised two things. First that. And Teresa will go with you. The rest of us will remain on board," Carmen concluded without Teresa having to voice her request aloud. 'Yes, ' Carmen thought to herself, 'something was stirring between Teresa and Jon, and perhaps Teresa even had womanly dreams.' She had watched the two young people seemingly drawn together as if by magnet at any opportunity, and in the weeks that Teresa had been aboard the Maidens Revenge little Teresa Santos had grown to be a woman, 'and what should not be. Only to see another orange jump suited man, his hands in heavy cuffs escorted by two marines going the other way two minutes later. Fleet Officers and personnel walked busily back and forth and they all wore dress uniform. No one was casual, the whole atmosphere of this spaceport was somehow subdued and serious, still busy and lively but the din of many voices I had experienced on other ports was not there. As if everyone whispered.I also noticed four Federal executioners in their dark red.