He had pointedly suggested to the personnel officer that the arrival should be staggered. His back channel to his friend the Space Lord's writer was r...pulsed with an acerbic, 'can't change the system, that's the way it's always been done'.He surveyed his domain standing ramrod straight beside his Corporal watching his sentries' attempting to turn chaos into order as newly minted Ensigns, apprentices (he swore they got younger each year and most of them should still have been in short pants and. "Elisabeth clamped her eyes shut as if trying not to see the pain she felt. "I ... He did ... I did ... sinful, vulgar, detestable things. I ... I didn't want to ... As God is my witness ... I didn't want to ... But ... But then..." She broke down in tears and began quickly rocking her body forward and back as a child might do. "Oh dear God. Then I ... I ... enjoyed it! How could I have ... How? How? How?" Take it easy Elisabeth. Try and relax." Karen slipped her arm around Elisabeth's shoulder. Disappointing people had always made her upset, but now that she was an adult she couldn't deprive herself of this need anymoreFinally moving away from the windows to the dismay of the boys on her street, she anxiously decided what she was going to wear for her first day.She decided to wear something simple and comforting, going for a black tank top with matching plain black bra and a plaid skirt like the girls in her books wore to school. There were two problems with this outfit, only one of. Her sad face was really playing hard on me but I was determined to stay firm.“Daddy, please I really want to go!” she begged again“Allison, there is no money! I can barely afford your tuition. Maybe you can get a part time job and make enough so that you can go.” I saidAllison ran out of the room and I continued to feel bad.Over the next couple of months I continued to be prepared to have a repeat of this discussion but it did not happen. As time progressed I assumed that she had given up and.