He’d be a smith by trade for sure,” Davos inquired of his questioner in turn.“I know several fellows like that. Look around you. Anything else a...out him that would stand out?” the rather sweaty young woman asked Davos, clearly admiring the older man to the point that he was now sure that she questioned him in order to flirt.“Perhaps a helmet with bull’s horns? Or a massive hammer, if his father or his trade are anything to go by,” Davos honed his inquiry as the danger sharpened his wits. Rafiq sir didn’t listen to anything and continued hugging and kissing her.Rafiq sir: “Shanti ji, I love you. I fell for your beauty from the first day I saw you. Please understand my feeling. I am in so much pain. I haven’t felt a woman’s touch and love for years. I need your love. Please understand my pain and give me your love. I need you. Just once, please I need your womanly love to release my pain. My body is burning for a woman’s love. Please fulfill my thirst for love and take me to. ”“You had been commanded to stop or slow. It didn’t so we removed it. You and your ships need to continue to slow or suffer the same fate. We do not tolerate invaders from earth or any other place.”“We are not invaders but had been sent to take possession of the planets of this system as awarded to us by the United Empire’s governing body.”I chuckled mirthlessly. I said, “This system is inhabited by a sentient species that has control over more powerful technology than we’ve seen on earth. We. Throughout those last few days of November and the first couple of weeks of December, we got closer and closer, to the point where it actually hurt, physically, when we were forced to be apart by our different timetables or her mom’s no going out on a school night rule. Mind you, we did our best to circumvent that petty restriction. Clarissa stopped giving Grace and Emily a lift home altogether and instead came to my house for as long as she thought she could get away with—usually until about.