"I shrugged. "Teach her how to put up a shield, for heaven's sake."He looked contemplative. "I don't think I know how to do that." He grinned again. "...ou do. You pushed me away mentally, and I couldn't get back in."I performed a light scan. When his thoughts let me know he felt my mind in his, I said, "Push me out." How?" You know how. You push your empathic scans into individuals. Do the same but push against my scan."I felt his push."Now shield yourself." How?" Visualize a mental shield. I then began to caress her neck. I could feel her draw in her breath sharply, as she felt my hand on the bare skin of her neck. Her skin felt smooth and hot to my touch. Then I began to tease her by caressing her collar bone and her neck with my fingers. Sliding my fingers down a bit more, I felt the softness of her chest just above the first button of her shirt. She shivered at my touch, and pressed herself closer towards me, her shoulders pressing into the side of my rib-cage under my. ”There was silence for nearly a minute before someone spoke again.“I have to say I agree with Steve,” Beth Pater said. “This is one of those things that goes right to the core of his personality. And honestly, should we be fighting him over a couple of junior people who might not sign? I say we let him use his incomparable powers of persuasion and his charm to accomplish this. A carrot, not a stick.”That was one vote. I knew that if either Karl or Al backed me, I’d win a vote if it were held.. The daughter of unknown parents, Vulcan and Rihannsu, she had been abandoned along with the rest of the half-breed children to survive on their own or die.Salvation had come in the form of a team of Vulcans sent to explore the world they knew as T’Vorus. The leader of that expedition, a Starfleet officer named Spock, saw something worth saving in the street urchin who introduced herself with an armed attack on his person.She had spent the second third of her life as the adopted daughter of.