“Are you ready for me, slut?” he asked, his voicesteely and cold.Mira took a deep breath. She sat, completely naked, onthe old and faded h...tel comforter, waiting to meet herMaster for the first time. “…Yes… Sir, I think… I think I’m ready.”There was silence on the other end, silence that seemedto last for more than a minute, endless silence forMira. “If you’re not sure, slut, I’ll turn around andgo home.”“No! No,. Placing my favourite mug on the coaster besides my keyboard she wrapped both her hands around her own mug and stepped back, perching herself on the corner of the desk. We both knew she needed to talk, needed the release of speaking the hurt aloud, yet robbed of her usual quick wit and caustic banter Dee spoke in shorthand."She stayed the night." Thank you for taking care of her for me." We talked." You two always talk." She ... she pushed." She asked me, but the answers are not mine to give.". Still, I wasn’t really comfortable because I knew I just wasn’t into the guy and almost felt like my being there was just dragging him on. The wine seemed to be relaxing me a bit so I indulged in more wine that food in hopes of helping the date smooth out some and become more comfortable. The high dollar wine went down smooth and there was no shortage of it because he kept ordering anything I wanted.I think I had a lot more than I should have and didn’t realize at this point what a delayed. Command not understood.”Joey estimated that he had less than a minute left before the matter stream would destabilize and whoever or whatever was in the beam would be lost. As he scanned the room for an additional source of power, his hand brushed up against his phaser.“Well, if it worked on TV,” Joey said as he took his phaser off his hip and went to the other side of the transporter console.Before Joey could finish removing the access plate from the rear of the console, the mind he had nearly.