Everyone will know that Relpt is not responsible for losing the Zldat and Ship Commander Shimlt is not to blame for not conducting the inventory; but ...t’s still viewed as a mark on her record. According to the Rumor Conduit, Supreme Commander Klatht has decided that Shimlt should be given the opportunity to remove that stain from her record by allowing her to retrieve the First Offspring from the world Gletb left her on.”“Oh hell, Vert, I don’t like Time Distortion. It makes me sick; and the. ” I said, thinking that would be the end of it.“Oh, she’s interested.” Alice insisted. “She’s been hanging around, helping out with the kids, and Sally has been whispering in her ear.”“It sounds like you’re interested.” I said, thinking I was joking.“Yeah, well Sally knows how to press my buttons. I’m sure Sally told her to flirt with me, the way she’s been walking around the place half dressed with that tight little ass and those big breasts bouncing around...”“Alice! You’re a married woman.”. I found this little black book under his mattress. Within its pages were pictures of me. Playing. Eating. At the park. At the beach. At parties. Sleeping...sleeping...sleeping… Me at five, me at eleven. Me in some of my most vulnerable of moments. And then vows. To always love me no matter what. To always protect me. Eli Youth, he wrote my name in swirling cursive letters and hearts around. I remember shaking and stuffing the book back into his mattresses that day. I didn’t speak to him for two. This raid was destined to become a complete screw up from jump, and without the extra guns provided by my protection detail and me, a number of our people would have gone to the nearest morgue, instead of home that night.We listened to the teams coordinate action, relying on the agent assigned to keep us up to speed for details and explanation as we went. It seems that someone had shared our intentions with the enemy, because once our crews were ready to pounce all Hell broke loose.The radio.