?We’ll get started when you come down off your high.?We weren’t even started? Oh god, I can’t take this, I just want to die, please. ?You will...live for a month like this.? She said, seemingly reading my mind. ?The King decided that’s how long your torture is going to last. And in the end I will have your ass open so wide that I will be able to shove a live rat in you, and that rat will chew his way through your intestines in a desperate bid for freedom. The last man lasted thirty six. Hasn't happened yet!" So what if I asked you to ... do twenty jumping jacks?"Abbie stood up and began to jump up and down. "What's the big deal? It's just exercise! Everyone should exercise more." What if I asked you to ... dump your coffee on the floor, and then use your sweater to clean it up?"Abbie looked at Jake, shrugged, and then poured her coffee on the floor. "Seems kind of a waste of time, coffee, and maybe even my sweater. But what the heck, I'll do it!" She unbuttoned her cardigan. .??Uhhhhh...? Brian began to sweat as he panted heavily, the perfumesending his mind into a less resistant delirium by now. ?...y-yesss...yyyyesss....??Trussssst...? Rita purred into the young man?s ear.?...ssssurrenderrrr...you want to surrender yourself...to mytrusssst...completely.?Brian nodded slowly. ?Yeeesss.??Yeeeesss...? She kissed him on his lips now. ?...you will do...?Another kiss. ?...everything I tell you to,? Rita pecked his lipsagain. ?You won?t resist.?Desire and dizziness. I broke through continuing up, the new communication suite in my armor came to life, I accessed it, looking for the same link Adam had use to contact Janus, I found it activating it."Janus do you read me?" I waited."Jacob?" she answered back."Yes Janus have you begun the weapon drops?" I asked."Yes jacob, I am launching them from high orbit, I am sending every hand held weapon on the ship, as well as land vehicles. The Dauntless was equipped to secure a beachhead on a planet if it was called.