” She moved her left hand up and held his hand on top of the table.“That’s cute,” Mom said with a smile. “You two certainly seem a lot close... today. Less nerves now that the whole meeting-Mom-for-the-first-time part is over?”Alaina blushed lightly. That’s right, last time I was kinda just pretending to be his girlfriend. “Yeah ... Something like that,” she said bashfully.“Well, I’m sure it’s been reassuring to have someone there to be helpful and reliable while you were dealing with getting. I had assumedthis was nothing more than an ostentatious piece of jewellery, onesomewhat at odds with the starfleet uniform she was wearing, but it wasobviously much more than that. In response to her action the men andwomen we'd surprised all crumpled to the floor."Are they dead?" I asked."Unconscious," replied Kara, the first time she had spoken since we leftthe ship, "as is everyone else in the city. They will stay that wayuntil I release them." Your device is *that* powerful?"I let out a low. ” She tried to be strong. Mommy and Daddy had been so happy at dinner and if that wasn’t rare, it wasn’t exactly the norm anymore, either. She was trying to figure out how to delete the last few minutes when the tears spilled over and Illysette ran to her room with a soft wail of despair. Trouble, ears folded and tail limp, trotted head-down beside her as she went.******Sitting on her bed in a loose Lotus and cuddling the stuffing out of her pillow, Lys cried. Trouble lay at the foot of the. She then asked him a ton of questions on how she should handle Gavin. He was only nineteen , and already past the year, the state recommended for sexual instruction. “I don’t want you to go,” she said. “I have to. Don’t worry, he will learn fast.” He came around the couch and pulled her up for a hug. The closeness reignited her desire for sex, but she didn’t force it. “You could stay and teach him.” “I can’t. I told you last week that’s what we should do. If I stay any longer I.