" You don't know that, Owen?" said Marchant. "Crude slaves cost about twenty thousand pounds each." What did he mean by that? Why was he supposed to...know it? Crude slaves could be bought when they were cloned (referred to by slave buyers as "clirth"), raised and injected with human growth hormone and put to work at age seventeen for about fifteen thousand pounds, but there were economic costs as well. Anyway, clearly Marchant's fictitious company was buying them at maturity for a five. I think we were both pretty tired when Jack suggested we stop and eat before we ran out of daylight altogether. I was pretty beat so he didn’t have to ask me twice to stop. He offered me an ice cold beer and we drank the first ones down pretty quickly while sitting on his deck and talking about what we had done and all the work that was still out there. ‘Let me light up the grill – I have some great pork chops I can throw on with a baked potato and if you want I can throw together a salad.’ he. ..we got talking and at the end of the night I offered her a 'nightcap' back at mine. She readily agreed and we were soon on my sofa with lips locked together and my hands on her big tits. Our first fuck was on the sofa, she with her skirt pulled up, knickers hanging off one ankle and me still half dressed. We ended up naked in bed and she said "I know what you want you dirty boy, you want me the same way your mate had me last week." as she proceed to push me back and swing her leg over me. ”About an hour later, Naomi showed up with all but one of her scouts. “Doug, we found about 40 Erglets and 12 Grampits gathered for what looks like an ambush. I figured that was too many for me to try to take on all of them with just the one XM3, so I came in to report and to get your orders. Hank is watching the demons to report if they move somewhere else.”“Okay, good, you did the right thing. That’s enough to let our whole army attack. I don’t want them depending too much on just the three.