I smiled back. She really was lovely, if a little unpredictable. I looked over to find that Vicki had undone her bikini in the same way, and they were...both lying there effectively topless. I hurried to do something useful with the lotion, well aware that my interest must have been obvious, given that I could feel my cock pressing against the cloth of my shorts.As I knelt beside Steph, trying to will the evidence away before she saw it, I uncapped the lotion and squirted some on her back. She. ??Enough of this,? Julius interrupted. ?If Natalie chooses to learn her lessons the hard way, that’s her concern. We’ll break her in easily enough.? He spoke as though as I wasn’t even there! Was I so insignificant? My blood boiled, but any protest was curbed by the sight of the cane which still lay on his desk. My bottom still hurt, agonisingly so. Behind me, Gregory opened the door. I did not dare look around. I heard soft footsteps and, to my surprise, another girl knelt down beside. "Seeing the puzzled look on Timalta's face Caoilinn said, "I just asked Sybil and Cochrann to put the two Durale controlled ships into an emergency hibernation mode." Thank you."During their discussion about how to function for the next few days Caoilinn was interrupted by Sybil. "It is in progress. A Ferret and those ships AIs are working together to create the failure envisioned in the protocols. Ships systems are now going critical one by one. Those not needed are shut down automatically. Tara said she had kissed a girl, i.e. a person of the same sex, to which I and Adi didn’t drink. We soon started playing cards, where the loser of the particular round had to take off a piece of their clothing. As it was the month of December, it was pretty cold and all of us had more than 2 layers of cloth on us. I lost the first 2 rounds where I had to take off 2 pieces of cloth. Similarly Adi and Tara too lost rounds and after about 7-8 rounds all of us only had our inner wears on our body..