"Why have you brought that woman here?" he snarled at me."What's the problem?" I asked."She's a white woman, a very white woman and probably Irish fro... her name," he snapped back at me."I never knew that you had a problem with the wasichu, the whites. Would it have been better if I had brought a black or a Latino with me?" I demanded back in anger."NO!" he spat back at me, "It would not have been. It would only have been better if you had arrived with a woman of the people," he continued and. I thought Iwould have trouble getting to sleep but slipped off easily after a fewminutes."Rise and shine sleepy head," said Tabitha as she pulled back thecurtains revealing a sunny day. I did so and saw her smile as shenoticed what I was wearing. "It's one of my favourites too. And did youstay dry?" Despite my embarrassment I had to agree that I was which wasa plus. "Breakfast is in about twenty minutes so I suggest a quickshower and get dressed and we'll see you then." With that she turned. “Damn, I hate being right about this one,” Clessik sighed. “Inform the Melanoqui.”“Done. They have acknowledged and are pulling back to position gamma,” the Comms officer reported to the command group.“Pull back to Beta. Move disposition of forces to give us room to manoeuvre!” Clessik ordered.“Battlespheres are now in system,” the Detection officer informed.“Begin manoeuvring, open fire when they come into range then fall back in front of them.”“Admiral Clessik and the Imperial fleets will be. With all my memories of her, its sad that every single time I think of her, the first home movie running in my head, if only for a split second, is my kissing her cold forehead in her coffin. What the hell is that about?So closed coffin definitely, although lately I've been obsessed about cremation. Only because my mom recently told me she just paid for her funeral so we wouldn't have to. The cost was astronomical. We're talking the price on a compact car. My mom nags a lot but I can't phathom.