“The Patriarch says that the aliens are to have our full cooperation,” Zuki warned, “I am to be his guide today.”“I wanted to ask you a few ...uestions,” Jules interjected, getting her attention as she shifted her green eyes to him.“Very well, but make it quick. I have work that I must complete.”Jules pulled his tablet out of his pocket, the alien following it with her eyes, then he began to scroll through the list of questions that he had formulated during the long journey to the remote. I felt something in my hand and looked down to find the key to her dorm room.Most girls dressed casually. Khaki, knee length pants were popular, combined with sleeveless tops to take advantage of the meager air movement under the warm September sun.Not Shirley, she wore the summer dresses Suzanne had chosen, soft cotton, printed patterns that flattered her figure.I knew by the little jaunt in her step that she felt my eyes, storing the memory of long lithe legs and shapely ass to last me. “And it’s dark out. I wish they’d do something about the timekeeping.”“I know. Anything new?”“Not a damn thing. You?”“No.” Geri sighed. “It’d help if I could get down there.” After the shuttle crash, Tamako Ujimi had ordered the three remaining shuttles be decertified until the cause of the crash could be positively ascertained. It would take months to finish the first of three shuttles under construction. In the interim, the groundside colony sites were isolated from each other and from the. The steel is very slippery, and I was just putting my weight on the steel lip when the blow hit. I am sure that the jock doing the damage had no intention of doing me any permanent harm, he was just expressing that God-given right to be a jock.Unfortunately for me, the blow caught me just right and propelled me down the stairs, all 18 steps of them with the back of my head banging on each and every steel lip as I passed it. Needless to say, I was unconscious long before I got to the bottom of.