“You might be angry at me if I tell you,” Stephanie said.“I won’t. You can speak your mind with me,” Beckah replied.“Okay, if you say so. ... am a lesbian. When I drink I tend to hit on women. I have only slept with one woman before and she broke up with me before we got back together. I have wanted a girlfriend so bad lately and you are the hottest woman that I have seen. I don’t want to hit on you or do anything stupid, so I should not drink anymore. You probably hate me now,” Stephanie. No matter what, I knew I didn't want to be just drifting off into nothing.That got me thinking of Kray and Jay and Merlin. Probably I wasn't the only one alive. Kray was out there ... somewhere. He was out of my range, so I doubted that he could be close to a Bug ship. Then again, there were Bug ships all over the sky, as far as I could see – and that was a long way, maybe two kilometers. We had killed the Bug ships for six hours or more, and they hadn't stopped moving. Their last known speed. And when she was in the bath she would now always leave the bathroom door open so that they could talk, and afterwards she left her wet towels in the bathroom and unconcernedly walked naked across the room back to the bedroom. Some mornings she would get out of bed, and in only her T-shirt, walk to the bathroom and then the kitchen to get breakfast.Will would have loved to be as uninhibited as Mikki; but there was no way that he could walk around the way that she did if she was there! He did. Like that...”A sauna and a massage, she couldn’t have expected more from a five star resort. Lena let the tension melt from her tired muscles, Sleethe’s placating stroking lulling her to sleep.Lena was roused by the sensation of movement, opening her eyes slowly and blinking as they adjusted to the light. There was mud beneath her, Sleethe was carrying her in one of his strong arms as he made his way towards the village, her discarded clothing and the rucksack in his other hand. He was walking.