“Then how come YOU do it, too?” Mandy japed.“Do NOT!” “Do too.”“Maybe y’all’re contagious.”“Yes,” Aunt Barb said softly. “D...n’t you think this is doing something to all of us?”I guess that’s for me to answer. “Uh, bonded. Family, but way past family. And yes, Bink and Ben and me, we’re a marriage. And you ‘n’ Sara are a marriage. But all of us, well, I dunno if you call it a bigger marriage. I mean, there’s no legal way, just like me and Ben, but we know our hearts, me and Ben and Bink, and if. Josiah paused, to let them both catch their breath, mouths still passionately pressed together.It was the mermaid once again who demanded more, her shuddering tail ineffectively trying to push and pull him in and out of her. He allowed it at first, content to be used, but before long his own desperation had reached a peak, and he thrusted, at the edge of control as he attempted to sate it. He moved both of his hands down to the junction of tail and back, and held onto it almost as tightly as. ”I slipped my order chit through the gate and a corporal took it and turned to put it in his reader. He nodded and turned back and the gate slid into the wall. He handed the chit back to me, “Someone will be here to escort you.”I pulled the float through the gate and it closed behind me. I ignored the two men as I stood looking into the Emperor’s estate grounds. The captain that finally appeared in a small float craft was smiling. I loaded everything in the back and he took off. For the next. . Lieutenant Carvel, please notify your people that Captain Theodore White of the Oregon has been killed in combat. The flagship has been heavily damaged but the Crytherian Basilisk class battleship has been destroyed. The fleet will close up and proceed to Terra at best speed," Margret reported.Around the fleet, the orders went out and scanner crews started walking among the survivors looking for Crytherians hiding among them. When finished, over a thousand of them had been rounded up and.