No sign that the explosive device has been armed,” Crystal reported.We sent shuttles to the ship, which had automatically stopped. Twenty minutes la...er, they reported that the ship had been secured. The explosive device had been there, but hadn’t been armed. It took an hour to remove the explosives. They added two more AIs to the ship to help us control it. The original AI was fully cooperative, and the ship, Topper, was functional.By now, Rampage had arrived and sent a crew over to the raider. Robin finished her coffee, stood up and went to the back door. Max knew she probably wanted to change the topic and shift the conversation. He did, too. “I would like to plant some vegetables out there...a small garden. What do you think?” “Really. That's interesting.” “We had a big garden at Rainbow's End. My mom and dad grew all of our food and my sister Lark and I helped. Everyone there gardened and we shared the fruit from the orchard.” “Sounds beautiful.” “I've missed gardening. I. I stand there dumbfounded, not wanting to appear as some kind of pervert. She has to be in here somewhere, I mutter to myself, the sweat of anxiety breaking out further on my back. Exactly at that point I hear three knocks from one of the cubicles. I stand rigid, not knowing what to expect!When the door to the furthest cubicle opened with a slight creak, she stood there wearing her beautifully elegant smile. "Well hello there stranger, why don't you come on in," she said with her soft seductive. Then we settled in and waited for the heat. She snuggled close to me as we stared into the flames.We drank some more wine, talked into the night, and dozed off in the blankets. I awoke suddenly and it was still dark outside. I looked down to see that Heather had backed into me, snuggled up in my arms. We were quite warm from the fire and she felt really good in my arms. Too good. Her soft, warm body made my manhood uncontrollably twitch. I noticed that I had a hand dangerously close to her.