When I space travel my body works on a completely different clock than when I am on a planet. On a planet I go by that planets day cycle, when I’m i... space I go off the standard 36hour day. I heard my alarm go off and I was already rolling out of the small cot I was on. The alarm that sounds for me to wake up was a “WEIIIIIII WEIIIIII” sound, the alarm sounding at the moment however was going more of a “BREAAAAAA BREAAAAA” meaning “ALL HANDS TO DECK!”I ran out of the barracks and bolted down. I had been a ward of the County, and my adoption had been approved and recorded in the County records. I might have some legal recourse against them, but Uncle Bunny doubted it was worth the time and trouble to pursue it.I spent a restless night, unable to quiet my racing mind enough to really fall into any kind of sound sleep. I'd doze off for awhile, but then, I'd just snap back to full awareness when my mind started processing some of my unconscious thoughts. At seven the next morning, my. I sent it to an e-mail account of his. Kind of morbid, but at least they could find the guy if something happened to me. I hurried home and got everything ready for Mike's 6:30 arrival. Lit the candles, put on the new age music, fixed my hair for the fifteenth time, and waited. And waited. At 7:30 I blew out the candles and ate a Stouffer's dinner. Asshole! I was so mad, because another guy texted after him for a 7 o'clock slot but I had to decline. Them's the breaks, I guess. I blocked his. "I had invited Hank and his concubines to come visit us in our pod that afternoon, however only Hank, Abby and Claire came. His other two concubines, and all their offspring, had been left in their pod."Punishment," Abby told me, but wouldn't say why.We hadn't seen Hank or the twins since they had come out of the medical tubes, and the changes almost overwhelmed us. He was, I guessed, still a little shy, but he had lost the edge of fear he had had the only time I'd seen him. His size almost.