” Kayla plucked a hair band from the desk and pulled her long honey blonde hair back into a ponytail and secured it.George admired her lithe form as...she half-turned toward him. “You have the oddest timing for your ideas, you know. Anyway,” he shook himself and tried to focus on what she was saying, “what’s strange about it? They’ve been kicking us all over the place, and they are likely to continue kicking us.”“That’s my point, though. They aren’t kicking us. It’s been what, a month and a half?. I’m not sure, though, that I’d want a spike heel somewhere potentially uncomfortable, if we hit turbulence.”There were four happy smiles.“Hal, after our experiences in New York, I’ve realized that the Parliament really needs at least a couple more trustworthy men. I don’t think that I’ve mentioned that in DC, we also have some younger female owls, whom we’re trying to get into the power structure while in college or just out.“Think about anyone whom you might know in these categories. I don’t. There is enough reading in this laptop to last me a lifetime." He chuckled while thinking of his isolation from Earth, "Guess I don't have to worry about a virus on 2214, huh, Lobo?"Lobo just looked up and grinned his ferocious grin as Morales went on, "Speaking of studying, how can I study when I have to spend so much of my time just trying to live? But then again," he said with a sick laugh, "I do have the rest of my life. If ... the saber-tooths, or panthers or bears don't eat me, or I get. " It sounds like coddling to me," Lavender said as she positioned herself on Nilsen's bed. "Warriors must learn to endure if they are to be strong." Nonsense!" Jarrah scoffed as she dribbled scented oil over Lav's back. "Pain for pain's sake is silly. Work your body hard, yes. Work it until it fails, yes, that will make it stronger. Given that you allow it to recuperate that is. But to be in pain while it's healing, that improves nothing; in fact it slows down the process. Even Nil isn't that.