You weren't trained to know what to do and stress like that can make anyone do things they'd never usually do."Ashley wiped her nose and nodded, but d...dn't look convinced. "Thanks for helping Kaylee when it counted. I'm sorry I was a bitch to you." She turned and walked out of the banquet room without another word to anyone then wiped her eyes as she got to the door.Hilly and Madison looked at each other, silently communicating their surprise, then Hilly shook her head and added a bagel to her. "If I am not being rude, how old are you?" I don't mind at all! I am considered very young, just past adolescence at 40 years old. Gensoniraet here is an old man; he is 110." I noticed she did not shorten his name — the Nalu probably did not use nicknames much.Gensoniraet grinned. A Nalu of few words.Poli asked, "So, Mitch, what do you think?" Poli, I am overjoyed. This is a dream come true for me. Exploring a rich and unknown culture — at least unknown to my species — is what I studied all. The percentages of salvageable females and children for re-population efforts was dropping drastically in recent days and it was becoming almost a waste of time to even screen the survivors for programmable units to turn into citizens for the new republic.The cleansing units like the one under the command of Major Mike Major and his Executive Officer Captain Sally Hogg worked around the clock for the entire initial ninety days removing over a million problem cases from the picture and they were. My sister isn't very open about things like that. So, I guess I'll talk with you about it. First, it's perfectly normal to masturbate. We all get feelings that are sexual and we get aroused. You know when that happens, your penis swells and gets bigger, a hard-on, right?"I nodded and she went on, "It's perfectly normal to want to relieve yourself by masturbation and there's nothing wrong with it at all. Practically everyone does it, Eddie, including me."But, it's a private matter. You shouldn't.