New Year's Day came, and with it one of the rare East Tennessee snowfalls. It was nothing like the Christmas blizzard in Maine, of course, a scant inc... of snow that was mostly gone a day later. It was just enough to remind Will of the thing he disliked most about this part of the country, and that was the lack of seasons. He loved the short, cool summers, the gorgeous falls, and the snow-laden winters of Maine. Here, the summers seemed to stretch for nine months, and he could not understand why. That is one thing that many of the people here on Wadi believe. We expect that humanity will go on, and even accept that Earth might be able to fight back against the Sa'arm and eventually kick them off, but after the fight we've had here, we expect humanity to suffer really high casualties on Earth. We're talking that of every ten people left behind, we expect at least eight to die before the Sa'arm are stopped. The environment will be pretty badly damaged as well.In fact, a couple of the men. " I-I do Dr. Beatmen. I will abide by your directions. I-I just wish I could put it in sometimes. However, I suspect Kathy is so use to those big black dicks, she won't even want mine in her again." Well don't dwell on that, that's not important now. What is important is that we continue all the treatments to get you back to normal. Now let’s see, I see here you're adapting well to Transvestitism and the wearing of feminine attire. Do you feel it has helped reduced the stress of trying. All stations are manned and ready, all systems are operating normally.”“AI, do you believe the ship is ready to depart?” I asked, even though I knew it would concur, but it wouldn’t hurt to check.“Well, that makes it unanimous I guess. AI, please connect me to shipyard operations.”“Shipyard ops, this is the Oxford. Request clearance to undock and departure vector.”“Oxford, this is shipyard operations. You are clear to undock. Proceed on vector two two zero and contact Demeter traffic control on.