Four people could sit alongside each other with ease and be very comfortable.I’d been waiting for nearly fifteen minutes and began to wonder whether...Sian the thick bitch needed a bit of guidance when the floorboard above me creaked and a moment later soft footsteps could be heard descending the stairs. The door in the corner of the gigantic lounge swung open and Sian stepped through in all her naked glory, and I smiled.Fiona looked at her niece and Alice looked at her cousin but knew better. "I'm sorry," I said. "I'm just a sour old man." No you're not. You can be sweet when you want to be." I really should get back, though. If I'm going to get drunk, I should do it where I don't need to drive." OK."She had a disappointed look on her face that gave me one last pause for optimism. "Unless it's OK for me to stay here tonight," I said.She spoke almost in a whisper. "I don't think that's a good idea."I nodded. I expected as much. "But we'll do something tomorrow, OK?"She smiled. "I'll. "Ow!"Belladonna jammed Christabel's lower jaw upward. Choppers clinked.Christabel's eyes squinted.Blinked.Tears slinked down the sides of her facecheeks."Got the bit, Buster?" Belladonna blared."This beast needs to be muzzled. Bridled."She turned to Christabel.Sneered."Hope you're not scared." What is this?" Christabel brayed.Buster shoved his thumb and fingers between Christabel's jaws. Broke the clench of her lip. Slid the metal tongue between her teeth."There, there," Lucrezia said, patting. They got them!When the last drone in the asteroid field was destroyed, Orion and Novia had killed eighteen out of the fifty. The next highest was Perion and Lyra with nine."Return to base," said Androme."We'll debrief immediately after decon," said Sirrah.The students sat on the ends of their beds while Androme and Sirrah stood in the middle."You were completely pathetic," Sirrah chastised much to the shock and dismay of the cadets.Androme paced the floor wordlessly."What were you thinking?".