.. and that was just fine to Emily.And the girl also wore a very familiar collar.As Emily parked her car and got out, the girl ran up to her, excitedl... tossing away her cigarette. Emily could quickly see that the girl's long, dark hair was a frightfully tangled mess, like it hadn't been washed or brushed in days. And as the girl approached Emily ... well, Emily thought that the rather bedraggled dark-haired girl stank distinctly of raunchy sex and sweat. Like the vile tramp you are, Emily. I don't remember leaving the clubhouse, but I woke up in the hospital with several people around me. A nurse told me, "We've pumped your stomach, Honey, so you don't have anything of whatever was hurting you left inside. It was definitely some form of food poisoning, but we don't know from what. We've sent a tech out to the ballpark to see if they can get a sample of your puke. It's probably already been cleaned up. He'll also get a sample of all the food out there to see what might be. Just as long as you two don’t too serious with each other.”“No,” she answered. “I like him and he’s great in bed but that’s about as far as it goes. I think Paulo loves the chase and the conquest but I don’t think he’s in it for the long term. There’ll be other couples here long after we have gone.”“You’ll miss him when we leave here though won’t you?”“I’ll miss the sex, yes, but there’ll be others.”“Others?”“Yes others,” she responded. “I do intend seeing other men for sex. Maybe I’ll find. I replayed the sensor log of the attack in my mind, I watched it several times, I noticed something strange immediately, the mines had targeted the section of the ship where the humans sat in stasis, the mines that had impacted else where on the ship had been on a course for the midsection only to encounter the rest of the ship. So the hits on CNC had only been because the mine had been in front of the ship, they had only rudimentary controls, I scanned through the sensor frequencies and.