. I did break my maidenhead.”I grinned and looked at the boiler and stood, “it looks like we have hot water.”I opened the spigot and hot water p...ured into the tub. Once the water was warm but not to hot I shut it off and pulled the fire tray out from under the boiler. Sai slipped into the bath and sighed and I hesitated before I knelt beside it and started to wash her. Of course I also enjoyed feeling her smooth skin and she seemed to like it too.Finally she pulled me in and went to her knees. "I was just teasing, but it brings up a good point: we shouldn't try to read more into these abilities than we can be sure of. But what we have so far has been useful and I'm sure what you've discovered is even more helpful yet. You've done some excellent work here, Allison."She positively beamed at my praise, and it made me wonder if maybe I hadn't been complimenting my girls enough. They'd been working on a variety of things for me lately, and I had to remember to keep encouraging them. I'd. "I," Derrick started, "do not intend for you to be put into a situation like that, you do understand that without you and the others I would never have accepted this position." When Mary only nodded her eyes wide at what Derrick had said, Derrick continued, "I intend for you to last long after I am gone." The tears were falling harder now no one, no Emperor had ever given her, her children or their children the consideration that this man did. "Mary, how close are we to being ready for all of. If they weren't re-elected, they were banned from politics for life. The limit for the planetary legislature was three terms. At that point a candidate was eligible to run for a position in the senate, the upper house of Martian congress.The senate, where most of the important decisions were made, consisted entirely of elected officials who had maxed out their legislative terms. Only those who had gained the respect of their districts as well as the surrounding districts were voted in. Each.